TheEEStory.com

http://theeestory.com/files/MLC_Capacitor_Prime...

We put a handbook here on capacitors, how they work, and the key parameters, and other neat stuff.

If you want to get a basic idea on this key technology, this is a good place to start.

Thanks, looks like more than a primer. It will take me quite a while to get through it.

Novacap huh? My undergraduate Ceramic Engineering class visited Novacap on a field trip just north of Los Angeles in 1989. The principles had just sold the company and were still around running it. They each had a nice Ferrari parked in the parking lot of the facility. I heard from a reliable source that Novacap folded a few years later. Very competitive business.

Notice how none of the high-K cap graphs there show anything even close to the small temperature dependence claimed in the EESU patent? This is an example of why so many people who know what they are talking about are in the range from "extremely suspicious" to "it will never work"

Aidenn

That's one of the reasons we posted that, to give some perspective to the claims.

Believers can point to it and exclaim "See how advanced this EESU is!"

Skeptics can point to it and say "See how absurd this EESU is?"

Either way, its a fair benchmark, IMHO.

Last edited Fri, 21 Nov 2008, 1:47pm by CapacitorMan

@ CapacitorMan:

well said. We need benchmarks like these for comparisons sake and to help people understand the advantages of this technology which even I am somewhat skeptical about.

CapacitorMan wrote:

Believers can point to it and exclaim "See how advanced this EESU is!"
Skeptics can point to it and say "See how absurd this EESU is?"

Hahahaaa! Awesome :D

Yeah, CapMan's Cap Primer (I'm about half way through it) is a very good encapsulation of the reasons why traditional concepts of permittivity based on molecular dipoles have to be discarded wrt EESU speculation.

I think re-interpreting the word permittivity to assume "effective" or "equivalent" permittivity when musing on EEStor's technique would be useful in this regard. Maybe "energy storage multiplier coefficient" compared to a vacuum cap, instead of simple "permittivity". Changing terms might free the mind.