Used with a DMM on the 20V range, this circuit gives a rapid and direct measure of the leakage current of capacitors. There are two ranges, with maximum readings of about 20µA and 2mA, and the test ...

Essentially, every capacitor comes with a free resistor and inductor (at the very least). Loosely termed the parasitics, these elements affect capacitor performance, causing real values to depart from ...

Leakage current has been a leading cause of device failure in DRAM design, starting with the 20nm technology node. Problems with leakage current in DRAM design can lead to reliability issues, even ...

The Amiga 600 was in its day the machine nobody really wanted — a final attempt to flog the almost original spec 68000 platform from 1985, in 1992. Sure it had a PCMCIA slot nobody used, and ...

Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) stores data in a capacitor. These capacitors leak charge so the information fades unless the charge is refreshed periodically. Because of this refresh requirement, ...

Jack Ganssle is an internationally recognized embedded systems engineer, author, and speaker. He has published more than 700 articles on different aspects of embedded development as well as six books ...

Regular readers of Hackaday are intimately knowledgeable about old electronics, and whether it’s about that old oscilloscope sitting in the pile of other oscilloscopes, or the very rare vintage ...

Where high currents are involved and conventional batteries are deficient, supercapacitors offer savings in size and a unique combination of high-power and high-energy performance parameters. Also ...

Jusung Engineering is shipping DTC silicon capacitor atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment to take the lead in the next-generation semiconductor market. The company explained that it developed the ...

A recent article in Nature Communications proposed a high-entropy tungsten bronze-type relaxor ferroelectric ceramic with an ultrahigh recoverable energy density of 11.0 J/cm 3 and a high efficiency ...