Promising trends in materials for ceramic capacitors

Ceramic capacitors are ubiquitous in modern electronics, and indeed are a pilar of our modern economy and society, with the range of their applications going from high technology products to new energy mobility.Those low-profile passive components, in comparison to semi-conductors, are nonetheless essential for signal filtering, decoupling, and storing energy thanks to their versatility, stability, and their affordability when mass produced.As they have to accommodate frequencies, power, temperature, and voltage that keep getting higher, progress needs to be made in the manufacturing process and materials in order to increase their capacity and stability when produced in smaller dimensions. The colossal permittivity of certain materials represents of the highly promising field of study that could unleash critical progress and could allow MLCC to replace Tantalum Capacitors, which are costly and difficult to get a hold of.

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La Dra. Sonia De Almeida-Didry tuvo un papel clave en el proyecto COCONUT sobre materiales nanoestructurados de núcleo para condensadores cerámicos multicapa.La Dra. Cécile Autret es Profesora Asociada de Química del Estado Sólido. El Dr. François Gervais es profesor emérito del Departamento de Física de la Facultad de Ciencias y Técnicas de la Universidad de Tours.