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Introduction to Capacitors and Their Role in Electronics

This video explores the function of capacitors and their importance in electronic devices. Capacitors store and release ...
New Atlas

Solid-state capacitor said to combine best qualities of batteries and capacitors

Capacitors are able to charge and discharge more quickly than batteries, and can do so hundreds of thousands of times. Batteries, on the other hand, are able to store more energy than capacitors.
Gizmodo

What Are Capacitors and Will They Really Charge Your Phone in Seconds?

Your phone died. Again. In these scenarios, who among us has not dreamed the dream of a future where our devices charge instantly and last forever. As capacitors—or even more exciting, ultracapacitors ...
Ars Technica

Carbon “onions” make for rapid-discharge capacitor

We tend to focus on charge storage in terms of the batteries that power our electronic devices and, increasingly, our cars. But charge storage devices now make an appearance on scales ranging from ...
Electronic Design

Dielectric Absorption, Soakage, And Voltage Discharge From A Supposedly Passive Capacitor

We can never charge a capacitor completely, unless we wait for infinity. The reverse is also true when discharging a capacitor. In the case of a CRT starting at a high voltage, it will deliver a ...
Business Wire

Power Integrations Incorporates Lossless Zero-Cross Detection and X-Capacitor Discharge into New LinkSwitch-TNZ Offline Switcher ICs

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced LinkSwitch™-TNZ, a new ...