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    tantalum electrolytic capacitor is an electrolytic capacitor, a passive component of electronic circuits. It consists of a pellet of porous tantalum metal...
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    of electrolytic capacitor: aluminium electrolytic capacitors, tantalum electrolytic capacitors, and niobium electrolytic capacitors. The large capacitance...
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    Polymer tantalum electrolytic capacitor (Polymer Ta-e-cap) Polymer aluminium electrolytic capacitor (Polymer Al-e-cap) Hybrid polymer capacitor (Hybrid...
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    capacitors are: Ceramic capacitors have a ceramic dielectric. Film and paper capacitors are named for their dielectrics. Aluminum, tantalum and niobium electrolytic...
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    the capacitor. Fortunately, most solid tantalum capacitor failures will be immediate and very evident. Once in application solid tantalum capacitor performance...
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    of tantalum make it valuable for laboratory and industrial equipment such as reaction vessels and vacuum furnaces. It is used in tantalum capacitors for...
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    layer serves as the capacitor's cathode (−). Niobium capacitors are available in SMD packaging and compete with tantalum chip capacitors in certain voltage...
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    In electronics, a decoupling capacitor is a capacitor used to decouple (i.e. prevent electrical energy from transferring to) one part of a circuit from...
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    aluminum, ceramic and tantalum capacitor? "KEMET Electronics – How do I choose between a polymer aluminum, ceramic and tantalum capacitor?". Archived from...
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    model this. Some types of capacitors, primarily tantalum and aluminum electrolytic capacitors, as well as some film capacitors have a specified rating value...
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    allowing replacement of more expensive tantalum electrolytic capacitors. The film/foil variants of plastic film capacitors are especially capable of handling...
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    is also extensively used in the production of capacitors, due to its high dielectric constant. Tantalum occurs in the minerals tantalite and columbite...
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    Coltan (redirect from Columbium-tantalum)
    the tantalum-dominant mineral is tantalite. Tantalum from coltan is used to manufacture tantalum capacitors which are used for mobile phones, personal...
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    Tantalum capacitors are, under some conditions, prone to self-destruction by thermal runaway. The capacitor typically consists of a sintered tantalum...
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    as the dielectric in an electrolytic capacitor. The properties of this aluminum oxide layer compared with tantalum pentoxide dielectric layer are given...
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    28 December 2015. Retrieved 28 December 2015. "Tantalum Surface Mount Capacitors - Standard Tantalum" (PDF). Catalog. KEMET Electronics Corporation....
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  • Franklin, AVX, Analysis of Solid Tantalum Capacitor Leakage Current, PDF, PDF CDE, Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitor Application Guide, PDF National Semiconductors...
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    KEMET Corporation (category Capacitor manufacturers)
    Corporation (TAIEX: 2327), manufactures a broad selection of capacitor technologies such as tantalum, aluminum, multilayer ceramic, film, paper, polymer electrolytic...
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    Sprague Electric (category Capacitor manufacturers)
    Committee on Capacitors (1942-1945). During the Second World War, Sprague invented the tantalum capacitor. The use of tantalum allows capacitors to achieve...
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    (IEC‑style) Trimmer variable capacitor Polarized capacitor (American‑style), such as electrolytic and tantalum capacitors Optionally, the triangle in these...
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    high-voltage tantalum electrolytic capacitor, David A. Evans developed an "Electrolytic-Hybrid Electrochemical Capacitor". These capacitors combine features...
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    tantalate and barium titanate. Niobium capacitors are available as alternative to tantalum capacitors, but tantalum capacitors still predominate. Niobium is added...
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    and ecology, similar to Fairphone. Instead of tantalum capacitors made from coltan, ceramic capacitors are used for their manufacturing. So far, eleven...
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  • acidic environments. It is also used to make superior electrolytic capacitors. Tantalum films provide the second most capacitance per volume of any substance...
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    Anodizing (section Tantalum)
    per volt depending on electrolyte and temperature. Uses include tantalum capacitors. An anodized oxide layer has a thickness in the range of 30 nanometers...
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    not covered by the end caps. SMD electrolytic capacitors, usually tantalum capacitors, and film capacitors are marked like resistors, with two significant...
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    this roll in a pyrolytic process, similar to that for solid tantalum capacitors. SAL-capacitors were developed and introduced in the market in the 1960s...
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  • physicist Dennis Gabor invented Holography 1950s Solid electrolyte tantalum capacitor was invented by Bell Laboratories 1950 French physicist Alfred Kastler...
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    Vishay Intertechnology (category Capacitor manufacturers)
    (2012), the resistor business of Huntington Electric (2011), the wet tantalum capacitor business of KEMET (2008), the PCS business of International Rectifier...
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    packages with fold-over contacts, similar to rectangular inductor/tantalum capacitor packages. Despite their handling difficulties, and in the particular...
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