Layer capacitor is one of the three passive electronic components in the circuit, it’s a kind of components which can store a certain amount of charge, widely used in the coupling, bypass, smoothing and so on. Passive components are components that don’t require an internal power supply and can respond by external signal input. As the three major passive electronic components in the electronic circuit, chip capacitor and thermistor, inductor are the essential basic electronic components.
In order to increase the capacitance of layer capacitor, media with larger dielectric constants, such as ceramic, mica, glass, etc; we can also increase the relative area of the two poles, such as multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC), stacking up multiple parallel plates, or similar to most aluminum electrolytic capacitors, to roll up a large area plate; it’s also possible to minimize vertical distances between the two poles, like use the metal oxide film as media.
According to the different media materials, capacitors can be divided into ceramic layer capacitor, aluminum electrolytic capacitor, tantalum electrolytic capacitor, film capacitors four categories. Ceramic capacitor can be divided into single layer ceramic capacitor, multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) and lead-type multi-layer capacitor. Single layer ceramic chip capacitor is a metal layer printed on both sides of the ceramic substrate, through low-temperature sintering to form an electrode, or use vacuum sputtering with electroplating metal layer to form the electrode. The single layer ceramic chip capacitor produced by EXSENSE Electronics Technology Co., Ltd. has the advantages of small size, thin thickness (thickness is generally 0.15-0.5mm), low equivalent series resistance, low loss, the application of frequency can up to several GHZ, which is suitable for small, microwave occasions, mainly used in phased control array radar, 5G communication and other downstream fields.
Multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) is to print the inner electrode on the ceramic dielectric diaphragm, and then the multi-layer diaphragms are stacked in a misplaced manner, after laminated and cut, doing disposable high-temperature sintering, seal the metal layer at both ends of the chip; the connection between the multi-layer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) and the circuit only needs to smear the conductive adhesive between it and the circuit board then sintered.
According to the main performance index of layer capacitor, the applied voltage and capacitance value of later capacitor is wide, and because of its small size and low price, it’s widely used in consumer electronics field and industrial field, and it has the highest market share of four main capacitors, which is reaching 43%.
