What is a Ceramic Capacitor?

What is a Ceramic Capacitor?

Ceramic capacitor Definition

 A ceramic capacitor is a widely used electronic component that uses a ceramic dielectric to store charge.

Basic structure of ceramic capacitor

MLCC is made of multiple ceramic layers separated by metal electrodes and has excellent high frequency performance.

Ceramic capacitor advantages

• Various sizes

• The price is low.

• Light weight

• Withstand high pressure

• Reliable performance

• Can be used for hybrid integrated circuits

Ceramic capacitor disadvantages

• No very high voltage ceramic capacitors

• High capacitance values cannot be achieved

Type of ceramic capacitor

• Semiconductor ceramic capacitor

• High voltage ceramic capacitor

• Multilayer ceramic capacitor

Ceramic capacitor Applications

Ceramic capacitors are used for bypass, decoupling and frequency discrimination in electronic circuits

Development direction

• Miniaturization

• Low-cost

• Bulk

• High-frequency