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Introducing Kemet's Advanced SMD Capacitors: Enhanced Safety, Stability, and Versatility for Automotive, Medical, and Industrial Applications

jaskoskaiva — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 07:56:43 GMT

Kemet is expanding its SMD capacitor product portfolio with KEMET's new “across the line” SMP255 capacitor series in safety class X2 and the optimized “line to ground” SMP253E series of RFI suppression capacitors (safety c...(read more)

How to Use K-LEM: Predicting Service Life of KEMET Metallized Film Capacitors in Harsh Environments

jaskoskaiva — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:20:09 GMT

community.element14.com/.../Kemet-K_2D00_LEM-Tutorial.mp4(read more)

What to Look for in On-Board Charger Design

jakemichels — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:45:00 GMT

As drivers begin to look to electric cars for the future, engineers have to consider various ways to replenish the battery systems. Considering it only takes a few minutes to replenish the current internal combustion engine, many EV systems are...(read more)

KEMET's Application Intelligence Lab: Beyond Products

nikhilstephen — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:23:22 GMT

The KEMET Application Intelligence Center (KAIC) is our brand new, innovative application lab located at KEMET Headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. I sat down with William Mak, Senior Applications Engineer, to talk about KAIC – what it is,...(read more)

Choosing a capacitor? Ripple current capability matters as much as Farads

nikhilstephen — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 15:40:57 GMT

by Derick Stephens, KEMET Corporation Selecting capacitors for decoupling and filtering in power circuits may seem like a basic chore for electronics designers. Getting it right, however, can critically influence reliability and longevity, but i...(read more)

Piezoelectric Polymers as Haptic Engines

nikhilstephen — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 19:44:20 GMT

Preface: Thanks to Francois Jeanneau, CEO and Sri Peruvemba, VP of Marketing from Novasentis for contributing the source information in this post.There isn’t any technology that is safe from the march of time and progress. Very little of the early da...(read more)

MLCC Shortage: When You Can’t Find The Cap You Need

nikhilstephen — Fri, 07 Sep 2018 13:26:02 GMT

It is 2018 and you’re probably reading this because you’re wondering when you’re gonna get your order of MLCCs. Either that or you’ve used some four-letter word to describe the lead times at your favorite distributor. Yes, the MLCCs industry is exper...(read more)

New App Note: How to correctly measure ceramic capacitors.

baldengineer — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:38:34 GMT

When I was working as a Field Application Engineer, about once a month I'd get a phone call from a panicked technician working on an assembly line. The call would always go the same. First the technician would explain that during board te...(read more)

CARTS 2014 Summary of Presentations

baldengineer — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:32:14 GMT

CARTS International 2014 is being held in Santa Clara, California. KEMET, a member of ECIA, is proud to be participating with several technical presentations. Monday March 31, 2014Dr. Erik Reed presents "Polymer Tantalum Capacitor T...(read more)

What is the difference between PME and BME Ceramics?

baldengineer — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:05:36 GMT

Sometimes when looking on a datasheet for Ceramic Capacitors you might see references to the terms"PME" and "BME"? What does these mean and why should you pay attention? These acronyms are describing the metals used for the electrode plat...(read more)

Building your own C and L meter (via EDN)

baldengineer — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 22:11:27 GMT

Even though we produce on the order of 1,000 capacitors per second, 100% of KEMET's capacitors are tested for parameters like Leakage Current (or Insulation Resistance), ESR, DF, and Capacitance before being shipped. Typically we'll use an Agil...(read more)