Ideal capacitors only exist in textbooks. Every real-world capacitor has additional complexity arising from its physical structure. Two plates separated by a dielectric layer are in series with wire ...

Norwood, Mass. — Analog Devices, Inc.'s new families of capacitance-to-digital converters (CDCs) and impedance-to-digital converters (IDCs) simplify instrumentation and sensor design in industrial, ...

Paul Whytock reports on integrated converters that tackle the signal-processing challenges of direct capacitance-to-digital and impedance-to-digital conversion. The world's first high-precision, ...

Over the past decade, demand for nano-electrical characterization has rapidly increased due to the continuous miniaturization of electronic devices. The semiconductor and microelectronics industries ...

In most power-supply design examples it is common to arbitrarily place the crossover frequency at one-fifth or one-tenth the switching frequency. However, the crossover frequency actually affects the ...

Any grizzled electronic engineer will tell you that RF work is hard. Maintaining impedance matching may be a case of cutting wires to length at lower frequencies, but into the low centimetre and ...

Capacitive sensing has emerged as a promising non-contact approach for acquiring biopotential signals such as electrocardiograms and electrodermal activity. Unlike conventional methods that rely on ...

The rules of the National Electrical Code are written for people who have a pre-existing knowledge of electricity. In order to make sense of the Code, you must first understand basic electrical ...