Voltage variable-capacitance capacitors

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Bill Beaty

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No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.
 
Bill Beaty wrote...
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.
Click to expand...

What!?! Bill, surely you knew about this, it's certainly
not been a secret. The reason you don't see it laboriously
spelled out on MLCC capacitor datasheets, is because they
specify ceramic type, X7R, X5V, Y5V, etc., on the datasheet.
Then they separately publish data and capacitance-vs-voltage
curves for their ceramic types.


--
Thanks,
- Win
 
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:58:49 AM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.
Click to expand...

As Win says this has been known about this for a while.
'Your mission Mr Phelps(Beaty), should you choose to accept it, is
to turn this cap into a voltage tunable filter.'
or maybe a parametric amplifier ?

George H.
 
On Wednesday, 1 May 2019 13:58:49 UTC+1, Bill Beaty wrote:
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.
Click to expand...

Publihed curves showing tis effect are not hard to find


NT
 
On 5/1/19 10:22 AM, George Herold wrote:
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:58:49 AM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.

As Win says this has been known about this for a while.
'Your mission Mr Phelps(Beaty), should you choose to accept it, is
to turn this cap into a voltage tunable filter.'
or maybe a parametric amplifier ?

George H.
Click to expand...

The problems are the tolerance and tempco. I have a reel of 22 nF Y5V
caps that are pretty good varactors. I've been meaning to try making a
paramp out of some, to see how good a LF noise figure I could get.
That would be a super amusing product. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

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On Wed, 1 May 2019 07:22:30 -0700 (PDT), George Herold
<gherold@teachspin.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:58:49 AM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.

As Win says this has been known about this for a while.
'Your mission Mr Phelps(Beaty), should you choose to accept it, is
to turn this cap into a voltage tunable filter.'
or maybe a parametric amplifier ?

George H.
Click to expand...

Nonlinear ceramic caps have been used in high-voltage NLTL shock
lines, to speed up the rising edge of kilovolt pulses.

They are not very useful as tuning devices because the caps with large
voltage coefficients have low Qs and horrible temperature
coefficients. But then diode varicaps have bad TCs too.

Somebody (Murata?) makes a 3-terminal voltage-variable cap, for RF
tuning, that is ceramic based.

One could make a parametric amp with nonlinear caps, for fun, but it
probably wouldn't be useful.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilppasx0ym7b98y/Ccap_CV.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8tyke1minfc5c6/Samsung_47U_CV.JPG?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yw7z80nahv4rp4l/Charging_47u.JPG?dl=0

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On Wed, 1 May 2019 11:37:40 -0400, Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:

On 5/1/19 10:22 AM, George Herold wrote:
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:58:49 AM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.

I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)

Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to it.

As Win says this has been known about this for a while.
'Your mission Mr Phelps(Beaty), should you choose to accept it, is
to turn this cap into a voltage tunable filter.'
or maybe a parametric amplifier ?

George H.


The problems are the tolerance and tempco. I have a reel of 22 nF Y5V
caps that are pretty good varactors. I've been meaning to try making a
paramp out of some, to see how good a LF noise figure I could get.
That would be a super amusing product. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs
Click to expand...

Try these?

https://www.murata.com/en-us/products/capacitor/variable



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"Winfield Hill" <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote in message
news:qac67q09m0@drn.newsguy.com...
What!?! Bill, surely you knew about this, it's certainly
not been a secret. The reason you don't see it laboriously
spelled out on MLCC capacitor datasheets, is because they
specify ceramic type, X7R, X5V, Y5V, etc., on the datasheet.
Then they separately publish data and capacitance-vs-voltage
curves for their ceramic types.
Click to expand...

Hah, anyone who buys that is buying bunk.

Vitramon brand comes to mind, and I forget which others. Meaningless
curves -- other manufacturers make values all over the place (e.g., a 1uF
16V 0805 that performs better at rated voltage than a 1uF 50V 0805 does at
the same voltage), so I have no reasonable expectation that their products
are any different.

Do they only make parts that in fact conform to their suggested curves? I
have no idea without testing. The market has been spoiled by everyone else.
This is why we can't have nice things.

At least some are finally bucking the trend. Samsung parts -- when their
freaking datasheets don't actually 404 -- about 30% of the time have a
characteristic sheet that shows C(V). Taiyo Yuden is doing this too, IIRC
(but in the regular datasheets, that don't 404). Murata, Kemet* and TDK
have characteristics on their web-accessible database.

*When the parts show up there. I think most of Kemet's variations fail (you
can't find a flex-term part, but presumably the base PN is listed??).

Ferrite beads are where it's still dire. Murata infrequently has Z(I)
curves. Only Laird's catalog has complete coverage. I don't bother even
checking anyone else.

Tim

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Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
Website: https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/
 
"Bill Beaty" <billb@eskimo.com> wrote in message
news:8df9b4ab-afed-4688-88d9-4e7f74291b1f@googlegroups.com...
No need for VC tuning diodes, we have VC variable ceramic capacitors.

Use any large-value ceramic capacitor. Measure the uF while applying a DC
bias, and watch what happens.
Click to expand...

Careful with the generalization -- some C0G are available nowadays that
might be considered "large-value". Not that they would necessarily be your
first choice, given the price.

It's not characteristic of the large values, but of the dielectric type,
namely, 2.


I tried this on a 22uF 10V cap, in 0805 package. At 2.6V, capacitance
decreased from 21uF to 10uF! At the rated 10V, capacitance was 2.55uF.

WTF

The suppliers have apparently been concealing the fact that, for very
small
ceramics with large values, the capacitance value is not stable, and
across
the voltage rating, can decrease by a factor of at least ten! (I only
measured one example. I bet there are others which behave even worse.)
Click to expand...

Your very example proves it's not "at least"... "Up to ten" would be more
honest. I've seen a Taiyo Yuden "50V" that was surely constructed like a
6.3V part, and had >10x reduction at rated voltage. They aren't common, but
they are definitely out there.


Try finding this fact in a typical spec sheet. Your 10V capacitor might
have
an advertised 5% tolerance, but only if you never actually apply 10VDC to
it.
Click to expand...

X7R is as good as you can find, and is defined as R = +/- 15% over
temperature. (P is 10). You can get "5%" X7Rs but the tolerance is only
applicable at room temperature. It's not clear to me if they include aging,
probably not (which will blow that tolerance as well after a few
years/decades).

Note that aging is set from when the part was last annealed, i.e., heated
above Curie temperature. This is typically soldering, so, from the date of
final assembly. Aging proceeds roughly as ln(age) so the first few percent
are gone in weeks, but consuming the full tolerance can take decades (at
least for the common 10% parts).

Tim

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Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
Website: https://www.seventransistorlabs.com/
 
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 6:16:56 AM UTC-7, Winfield Hill wrote:

What!?! Bill, surely you knew about this, it's certainly
not been a secret.
Click to expand...

No no no. Not the known variability associated with any
particular material. Read again. This is about capacitance
instability for the smallest smt sizes. (Actually a cool
topic ca. 2012. If not already in AOA text, it should be.)

Your 22uF ceramic becomes a 3uF ceramic at the rated working
voltage, BUT ONLY FOR EXTREMELY TINY SMT VERSIONS, somewhat
regardless of ceramic type. This is about the *vast* change
for *overly small* smt capacitors having *large* values.
See:

Temperature and Voltage Variation of Ceramic Capacitors, or
Why Your 4.7ÎźF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33ÎźF Capacitor
http://www.maximintegrated.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527f

"Introduction: I Was Surprised
"A few years ago, after more than 25 years of working with these
things, I learned something new about ceramic capacitors. I was
working on an LED light-bulb driver and the time constant of an
RC circuit in my project simply did not seem to be right.
I immediately assumed that there was an incorrect component value
installed on the board, so I measured the two resistors making up
a voltage-divider. They were just fine. I desoldered the capa-
citor from the board and measured it. It, too, was fine. Just to
be sure, I got new resistors and capacitor, then measured and
installed them. I fired up the circuit, checked that the basic
operation was proper, and went to see if my RC time-constant
problem was resolved. It was not.
NOT ALL X&Rs ARE CREATED EQUAL"

Here's their graph for various 4.7uF smt sizes:

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/images/appnotes/5527/5527Fig01.gif

My quick test with a BK LCR meter isolated by 1000uF electrolytic:
Murata GRM21BR61A226ME51L, 22uF 10V 0805 X5R

21uF at 0V
10uF at 2.6V
6.8uF at 5V
2.55uF at 10V

In other words, repeat the same test with X5R, but in 0805 package
0.1uF 25V. Nothing unexpected.

Or, try the 22uF value NOT in 0603 or 0805 but in a 1210 package or
larger. Works fine, no eight hundred percent decrease.


The reason you don't see it laboriously
spelled out on MLCC capacitor datasheets, is because they
specify ceramic type, X7R, X5V, Y5V, etc., on the datasheet.
Click to expand...

Again, this isn't about ceramic type. This is about stuffing a
47uF cap into an 0603 package, then not warning users that the
tiny capacitor will NEVER give you 47uF, except at nearly zero
voltage.

This is only old news, if "old" means five years ago. Then again,
maybe it was heavily discussed here in 2013-2014?

https://www.eeweb.com/profile/maxim/articles/why-your-4-7-f-capacitor-becomes-a-0-33-f-capacitor

https://www.eenewspower.com/content/how-measure-capacity-versus-bias-voltage-mlccs/page/0/3

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/t22291/
 
Bill Beaty wrote...
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, Winfield Hill wrote:

What!?! Bill, surely you knew about this, it's
certainly not been a secret.

No no no. Not the known variability associated with any
particular material. Read again. This is about capacitance
instability for the smallest smt sizes. (Actually a cool
topic ca. 2012. If not already in AoE text, it should be.)
Click to expand...

OK, now I'm learning something. But first let me say that
I am often putting various SMT caps on the SMT fixture for
my HP 4192A LCR meter, and certainly have seen the severe
10:1 reduction at rated voltage, even in large package sizes.
But I've been unaware of what must be a specsmanship game,
where apparently manufacturers are playing with the voltage
ratings for some of their parts. I've often wondered exactly
how they come up with MLCC ratings, because it doesn't always
seem to be leakage / breakdown related. Instead for many
parts it appeared to be give by the 10:1 voltage change,
but now you're saying that's not so. OK, thanks, I'll take
a look at your links and go educate myself.


--
Thanks,
- Win
 
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:37:51 AM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:

The problems are the tolerance and tempco. I have a reel of 22 nF Y5V
caps that are pretty good varactors. I've been meaning to try making a
paramp out of some, to see how good a LF noise figure I could get.
That would be a super amusing product. ;)
Click to expand...

Heh.


But then see:

Why Your 4.7ÎźF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33ÎźF Capacitor
http://www.maximintegrated.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527f

The huge effect appears for extremely small package size and
low voltage versions, while keeping ceramic type the same.
Well known since five years ago. I only found out yesterday.



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On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4:04:14 PM UTC-4, George Herold wrote:
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 2:42:32 PM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 6:16:56 AM UTC-7, Winfield Hill wrote:

What!?! Bill, surely you knew about this, it's certainly
not been a secret.

No no no. Not the known variability associated with any
particular material. Read again. This is about capacitance
instability for the smallest smt sizes. (Actually a cool
topic ca. 2012. If not already in AOA text, it should be.)

Your 22uF ceramic becomes a 3uF ceramic at the rated working
voltage, BUT ONLY FOR EXTREMELY TINY SMT VERSIONS, somewhat
regardless of ceramic type. This is about the *vast* change
for *overly small* smt capacitors having *large* values.
See:

Temperature and Voltage Variation of Ceramic Capacitors, or
Why Your 4.7ÎźF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33ÎźF Capacitor
http://www.maximintegrated.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527f
Bill, this link doesn't work somehow.. it tells me that 5527f is unknown.

George H.
Click to expand...
Never mind, drop the f from the end and it works.
https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527
GH
"Introduction: I Was Surprised
"A few years ago, after more than 25 years of working with these
things, I learned something new about ceramic capacitors. I was
working on an LED light-bulb driver and the time constant of an
RC circuit in my project simply did not seem to be right.
I immediately assumed that there was an incorrect component value
installed on the board, so I measured the two resistors making up
a voltage-divider. They were just fine. I desoldered the capa-
citor from the board and measured it. It, too, was fine. Just to
be sure, I got new resistors and capacitor, then measured and
installed them. I fired up the circuit, checked that the basic
operation was proper, and went to see if my RC time-constant
problem was resolved. It was not.
NOT ALL X&Rs ARE CREATED EQUAL"

Here's their graph for various 4.7uF smt sizes:

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/images/appnotes/5527/5527Fig01.gif

My quick test with a BK LCR meter isolated by 1000uF electrolytic:
Murata GRM21BR61A226ME51L, 22uF 10V 0805 X5R

21uF at 0V
10uF at 2.6V
6.8uF at 5V
2.55uF at 10V

In other words, repeat the same test with X5R, but in 0805 package
0.1uF 25V. Nothing unexpected.

Or, try the 22uF value NOT in 0603 or 0805 but in a 1210 package or
larger. Works fine, no eight hundred percent decrease.


The reason you don't see it laboriously
spelled out on MLCC capacitor datasheets, is because they
specify ceramic type, X7R, X5V, Y5V, etc., on the datasheet.

Again, this isn't about ceramic type. This is about stuffing a
47uF cap into an 0603 package, then not warning users that the
tiny capacitor will NEVER give you 47uF, except at nearly zero
voltage.

This is only old news, if "old" means five years ago. Then again,
maybe it was heavily discussed here in 2013-2014?

https://www.eeweb.com/profile/maxim/articles/why-your-4-7-f-capacitor-becomes-a-0-33-f-capacitor

https://www.eenewspower.com/content/how-measure-capacity-versus-bias-voltage-mlccs/page/0/3

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/t22291/
Click to expand...
 
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 2:42:32 PM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 6:16:56 AM UTC-7, Winfield Hill wrote:

What!?! Bill, surely you knew about this, it's certainly
not been a secret.

No no no. Not the known variability associated with any
particular material. Read again. This is about capacitance
instability for the smallest smt sizes. (Actually a cool
topic ca. 2012. If not already in AOA text, it should be.)

Your 22uF ceramic becomes a 3uF ceramic at the rated working
voltage, BUT ONLY FOR EXTREMELY TINY SMT VERSIONS, somewhat
regardless of ceramic type. This is about the *vast* change
for *overly small* smt capacitors having *large* values.
See:

Temperature and Voltage Variation of Ceramic Capacitors, or
Why Your 4.7ÎźF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33ÎźF Capacitor
http://www.maximintegrated.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527f
Bill, this link doesn't work somehow.. it tells me that 5527f is unknown.
Click to expand...

George H.
"Introduction: I Was Surprised
"A few years ago, after more than 25 years of working with these
things, I learned something new about ceramic capacitors. I was
working on an LED light-bulb driver and the time constant of an
RC circuit in my project simply did not seem to be right.
I immediately assumed that there was an incorrect component value
installed on the board, so I measured the two resistors making up
a voltage-divider. They were just fine. I desoldered the capa-
citor from the board and measured it. It, too, was fine. Just to
be sure, I got new resistors and capacitor, then measured and
installed them. I fired up the circuit, checked that the basic
operation was proper, and went to see if my RC time-constant
problem was resolved. It was not.
NOT ALL X&Rs ARE CREATED EQUAL"

Here's their graph for various 4.7uF smt sizes:

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/images/appnotes/5527/5527Fig01.gif

My quick test with a BK LCR meter isolated by 1000uF electrolytic:
Murata GRM21BR61A226ME51L, 22uF 10V 0805 X5R

21uF at 0V
10uF at 2.6V
6.8uF at 5V
2.55uF at 10V

In other words, repeat the same test with X5R, but in 0805 package
0.1uF 25V. Nothing unexpected.

Or, try the 22uF value NOT in 0603 or 0805 but in a 1210 package or
larger. Works fine, no eight hundred percent decrease.


The reason you don't see it laboriously
spelled out on MLCC capacitor datasheets, is because they
specify ceramic type, X7R, X5V, Y5V, etc., on the datasheet.

Again, this isn't about ceramic type. This is about stuffing a
47uF cap into an 0603 package, then not warning users that the
tiny capacitor will NEVER give you 47uF, except at nearly zero
voltage.

This is only old news, if "old" means five years ago. Then again,
maybe it was heavily discussed here in 2013-2014?

https://www.eeweb.com/profile/maxim/articles/why-your-4-7-f-capacitor-becomes-a-0-33-f-capacitor

https://www.eenewspower.com/content/how-measure-capacity-versus-bias-voltage-mlccs/page/0/3

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/t22291/
Click to expand...
 
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 7:22:20 AM UTC-7, tabb...@gmail.com wrote:

Publihed curves showing tis effect are not hard to find
Click to expand...

I only find one, and from five years ago. This is about
uF variation versus package size, only when using large-value
ceramic filter-caps stuffed into tiny SMT. They go way,
way way outside their spec tolerance when running at their
normal WVDC spec. See the maxim appnote 5527 link

We can't use 22uF dk part 490-10511-1-ND, it turns into 6.8uF
when run at 5VDC! Instead of 0805 We'll try a 1210 package,
like DK part 1276-3395-1-ND‎


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"Bill Beaty" <billb@eskimo.com> wrote in message
news:758d768a-297c-40a0-b5d6-2f99d19fc99e@googlegroups.com...
>I only find one, and from five years ago. This is about
uF variation versus package size, only when using large-value
ceramic filter-caps stuffed into tiny SMT. They go way,
way way outside their spec tolerance when running at their
normal WVDC spec. See the maxim appnote 5527 link

We can't use 22uF dk part 490-10511-1-ND, it turns into 6.8uF
when run at 5VDC! Instead of 0805 We'll try a 1210 package,
like DK part 1276-3395-1-ND‎
>

https://psearch.en.murata.com/capacitor/product/GRM21BR61A226ME51%23.html
???

The AC voltage response is interesting, too. Initial permea\\ittivity is
about half the average value. Very standard behavior for
ferro{electric|magnetic} materials, but not often mentioned outside of
general material properties.

But yeah, 22uF at 5V is more a 1210 thing, think I've seen 1206s that are
reasonable too.

I've, on rare occasion, even seen 1206s that are better than 1210s of
similar value and rating. Only way to do, check the characteristic.
Tedious as hell; such is engineering...

Tim

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Electrical Engineering Consultation and Design
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On Wed, 1 May 2019 11:53:58 -0700 (PDT), Bill Beaty <billb@eskimo.com>
wrote:

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:37:51 AM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:

The problems are the tolerance and tempco. I have a reel of 22 nF Y5V
caps that are pretty good varactors. I've been meaning to try making a
paramp out of some, to see how good a LF noise figure I could get.
That would be a super amusing product. ;)

Heh.


But then see:

Why Your 4.7?F Capacitor Becomes a 0.33?F Capacitor
http://www.maximintegrated.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527f

The huge effect appears for extremely small package size and
low voltage versions, while keeping ceramic type the same.
Well known since five years ago. I only found out yesterday.
Click to expand...

That Maxim link takes me to an "unknown" page but has content on it.

Here is the actual link... Without the "f" at the end of the URL

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527


TUTORIAL 5527
Temperature and Voltage Variation of Ceramic Capacitors, or Why Your
4.7ľF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33ľF Capacitor
 
On Wed, 01 May 2019 14:20:55 -0700, boB <boB@K7IQ.com> wrote:

On Wed, 1 May 2019 11:53:58 -0700 (PDT), Bill Beaty <billb@eskimo.com
wrote:

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 8:37:51 AM UTC-7, Phil Hobbs wrote:

The problems are the tolerance and tempco. I have a reel of 22 nF Y5V
caps that are pretty good varactors. I've been meaning to try making a
paramp out of some, to see how good a LF noise figure I could get.
That would be a super amusing product. ;)

Heh.


But then see:

Why Your 4.7?F Capacitor Becomes a 0.33?F Capacitor
http://www.maximintegrated.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527f

The huge effect appears for extremely small package size and
low voltage versions, while keeping ceramic type the same.
Well known since five years ago. I only found out yesterday.

That Maxim link takes me to an "unknown" page but has content on it.

Here is the actual link... Without the "f" at the end of the URL

https://www.maximintegrated.com/en/app-notes/index.mvp/id/5527


TUTORIAL 5527
Temperature and Voltage Variation of Ceramic Capacitors, or Why Your
4.7ľF Capacitor Becomes a 0.33ľF Capacitor
Click to expand...

I wonder what happens if they try to stuff say, a 1210 with 10 times
the capacitance with the same dielectric ? Maybe the same behavior ?

Too thin and too much dielectric ? Or something else ?
 
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 4:01:25 PM UTC-4, Bill Beaty wrote:
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019 at 7:22:20 AM UTC-7, tabb...@gmail.com wrote:


Publihed curves showing tis effect are not hard to find


I only find one, and from five years ago. This is about
uF variation versus package size, only when using large-value
ceramic filter-caps stuffed into tiny SMT. They go way,
way way outside their spec tolerance when running at their
normal WVDC spec. See the maxim appnote 5527 link

We can't use 22uF dk part 490-10511-1-ND, it turns into 6.8uF
when run at 5VDC! Instead of 0805 We'll try a 1210 package,
like DK part 1276-3395-1-ND‎


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Bill that was very interesting, thanks.
(I would only use cog/npo ceramics in a filter.)
But it does go to show that ~energy storage goes as the volume.
(hmm, not sure that's true. Well at least that's ~true for film caps.


George H.
 
Bill Beaty wrote...
We can't use 22uF dk part 490-10511-1-ND, it turns
into 6.8uF when run at 5VDC!
Click to expand...

For some time now I've been using caps with voltage
ratings 3 to 5x higher than what they'll see. And
I've been avoiding small high-cap parts. No wonder
I didn't discover the scandal on my own.


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- Win
 
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