The parallel-plate capacitor equation is widely used in contemporary material research for nanoscale applications and nanoelectronics. To apply this equation, flat and smooth electrodes are assumed for a capacitor. This essential assumption is often violated for thin-film capacitors because the formation of nanoscale roughness at the electrode interface is very probable for thin films grown via...

We present results on the development a new micro electromechanical parallel plate tunable capacitor with a wide tuning range. Different from conventional parallel plate tunable capacitors, this new tunable capacitor consists of one suspended movable top plate and two fixed plates. One fixed plate and the top plate form the variable capacitor, while the other, together with the top plate, is us...

We present results on the development of a novel micromachined parallel-plate tunable capacitor with a wide tuning range. Different from conventional two-parallel-plate tunable capacitors, this novel tunable capacitor consists of one suspended top plate and two fixed bottom plates. One of the two fixed plates and the top plate form a variable capacitor, where as the other fixed plate and the to...

Analytic calculations of the electric field of a parallel-plate capacitor are notoriously difficult [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]. The usual goal of such efforts is a calculation of the correction to the hard-edge approximation, C = A/4πd (in Gaussian units), of the capacitance for plates of area A separated by distance d. Calculate instead the electromagnetic momentum of the parallel-plate capacito...

This paper reports on the development of a micromachined parallel-plate tunable capacitor with a wide tuning range. Different from conventional two-parallel-plate tunable capacitors, this tunable capacitor consists of one suspended top plate and two fixed bottom plates. One fixed plate and the top plate form a variable capacitor, while the other one provides necessary electrostatic actuation. A...

This paper investigates the fault detection of a micro parallel plate capacitor subjected to nonlinear electrostatic force. For this end Thau observer, which has good ability in fault detection of nonlinear system has been presented and governing nonlinear dynamic equation of the capacitor has been presented. Upper and lower threshold for fault detection have been obtained. The robustness of th...

The capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor is formulated in basic electrostatics, assuming that the separation between the two electrode plates is very narrow and the fringe field of the edges is negligible. However, in practical problems of electrical and electronic engineering there are many cases where the plate separation is wide and the fringe field effect cannot be neglected. In our pr...

Capacitors are important components in many integrated circuits. They serve numerous roles in analog and mixed signal circuits, including switched capacitor filters and sampleand-hold circuits. In addition, capacitors provide a vital role in the decoupling of microprocessors, digital signal processors, and microcontrollers from power supply variations. Traditional integrated circuit capacitors ...

A new configuration for the sample cell to be used in broadband dielectric spectroscopy is presented. A coaxial structure with a parallel plate capacitor (outward parallel plate cell: OPPC) has made it possible to extend the frequency range significantly in comparison with the frequency range of the conventional configuration. In the proposed configuration, stray inductance is significantly dec...