Parasitic Inductance of Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors

Modified Equivalent Circuit Model of Microwave Filter with LTCC Technique

Because microwave products in the consumer electronics market are continuous developing, device and component manufacturers have to seek new advanced integration, packaging and interconnection technologies, as size, cost and performance are critical factors for the success of a microwave product. One of the most promising integration technologies is the multilayer low temperature co-fired ceram...

ESR and ESL of Ceramic Capacitor Applied to Decoupling Applications

Power distribution system noise affects computer product timing performance, signal integrity and electromagnetic interference. Between 1 MHz and 1 GHz, the primary means of reducing power distribution noise is with ceramic decoupling capacitors. To achieve a certain target impedance, it is important to characterize the ESR of ceramic decoupling capacitors as they directly determine the number ...

Screening Techniques for Ceramic Capacitors Guidelines for Selection, Screening and Qualification of Low-Voltage Commercial Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors for Space Programs

Parasitic Inductance Cancellation for Filtering to Chassis Ground Using Surface Mount Capacitors

Parasitic inductance cancellation is applied to a surface mount shunt capacitor that is connected through a screw to a chassis ground plate separate from the reference planes of the PCB. This filter is demonstrated to have considerably better filtering performance than a comparable conventional shunt capacitor arrangement from 60 MHz to 800 MHz in a 50-Ω system.

Thin-film passives in RF/microwave circuits

Until recently, most microwave capacitors were based on fired multilayer ceramic technology. In this process, layers of highly conductive electrode metal alloys are interleaved with low-loss ceramic dielectrics in a multilayer fashion until the target capacitance is obtained. The resulting stack is then sintered into a monolithic structure in a high-temperature firing process. This process cont...