According to the IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronic Terms, power factor (PF) is defined as the ratio of the circuit power (watts) to the circuit volt-amperes. This is described by ...

Industrial and commercial customers constantly scrutinize their monthly electrical usage, looking for ways to save money. Installing power factor correction capacitors can reduce costly penalties ...

Ideal capacitors only exist in textbooks. Every real-world capacitor has additional complexity arising from its physical structure. Two plates separated by a dielectric layer are in series with wire ...

Adapted from an ac-output resonant half-bridge inverter circuit, the resonant CLC (capacitor-inductor capacitor) dc-dc converter employs a π-filter loaded by a rectifier. Adapted from an ac-output ...

The topology of the converter is determined by selecting an input capacitor with a capacitance much lower than the output capacitor. A 'quasi-resonant' DC to DC converter with zero-current and ...

TDK Corp. has introduced the EPCOS B3264xH series of double-sided metallized polypropylene film capacitors (MMKP) for advanced power electronics systems in automotive and industrial sectors. These ...

Although many High-Q capacitors are available on the market their performance can vary widely depending on design and the quality of manufacturing, as Scott Horton of Johanson Technology explains to ...

UK audio researchers have discovered two of what they suspect will be several subtle links between loudspeaker cross-over capacitors and the audio they produce. One is the effect of equivalent series ...