Let us Get to Know Ceramic Disk Capacitors a Little Better

If any electronic component is used the most after resistors, it is for sure the capacitors. A capacitor is an extremely important electronic component and it could be found in the everyday electronic items like air conditioners, music systems, televisions, computers, and all other electronic circuits.

 But do we know what a capacitor is and how does it help us in our everyday lives? Well, a capacitor is an electronic device that stores the electric charge or electricity whenever voltage is applied to it. After that the capacitor releases the stored electric charge whenever it is required. 

A capacitor acts as a small battery that is quick to charge and quick to discharge. So, in short any object that can store electric charge is called a capacitor. A capacitor is sometimes referred as a condenser. There are several types of capacitors based on fixed capacitance and variable capacitance. 

Amongst these, the most important are the fixed capacitance capacitors and capacitors with variable capacitance also exist. These include trimmer capacitors that are also known as rotary capacitors. The capacitors having fixed capacitance are divided into film capacitors, ceramic capacitors, electrolytic, and superconductor capacitors.

Amongst all these ceramic disk capacitor are the most common ones to be found in every electrical device. The electric device uses a ceramic material as the dielectric. These devices do not have any polarity and hence they could be connected in any direction on a circuit board.

What are the benefits of ceramic disk capacitor?

---These categories of capacitors are generally safer than electrolytic capacitors and are also known as Multilayer ceramic capacitor.

---A Multilayer ceramic capacitor has higher capacitance relative to case size, it can generate high frequencies at lower impedance and it also has a very low ESR, this allows much less power loss successfully controls the heat that is to be generated. 

It has another laudable feature of non-polarization which allows simple mounting and that is why it makes manufacturability much easier. They are easy to use because of their smaller case size and this helps in lower profile that servers much better performance than equivalent voltage or capacitance types. They are always easy on the pockets and do not require a lot of money to be owned as their unit cost is much lower.

With all these qualities, a ceramic disk capacitor always stands out from the crowd.