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  2. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    Most capacitors have a dielectric spacer, which increases their capacitance compared to air or a vacuum. In order to maximise the charge that a capacitor can hold, the dielectric material needs to have as high a permittivity as possible, while also having as high a breakdown voltage as possible. The dielectric also needs to have as low a loss ...

  3. Dielectric - Wikipedia

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    Dielectric relaxation is the momentary delay (or lag) in the dielectric constant of a material. This is usually caused by the delay in molecular polarisation with respect to a changing electric field in a dielectric medium (e.g., inside capacitors or between two large conducting surfaces).

  4. Electrolytic capacitor - Wikipedia

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    An electrolytic capacitor is a polarized capacitor whose anode or positive plate is made of a metal that forms an insulating oxide layer through anodization.This oxide layer acts as the dielectric of the capacitor.

  5. Capacitor types - Wikipedia

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    A dielectric material is placed between two conducting plates (electrodes), each of area A and with a separation of d.. A conventional capacitor stores electric energy as static electricity by charge separation in an electric field between two electrode plates.

  6. Glossary of power electronics - Wikipedia

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    A method of self-commutation in which the commutating voltage is supplied by capacitors included in the commutation circuit. capacitor element (or element) An indivisible part of a capacitor consisting of two electrodes separated by a dielectric. capacitor losses The active power consumed by a capacitor. [c] [d] capacitor unit (or unit)

  7. Water capacitor - Wikipedia

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    A capacitor consists of two conductors separated by a non-conductive region. The non-conductive region is called the dielectric or electrical insulator. Examples of traditional dielectric media are air, paper, and certain semiconductors. A capacitor is a self-contained system, isolated with no net electric charge.

  8. Liquid dielectric - Wikipedia

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    A liquid dielectric is a dielectric material in liquid state. Its main purpose is to prevent or rapidly quench electric discharges . Dielectric liquids are used as electrical insulators in high voltage applications, e.g. transformers , capacitors , high voltage cables , and switchgear (namely high voltage switchgear ).

  9. Dielectric absorption - Wikipedia

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    Dielectric absorption is the name given to the effect by which a capacitor, that has been charged for a long time, discharges only incompletely when briefly discharged.. Although an ideal capacitor would remain at zero volts after being discharged, real capacitors will develop a small voltage from time-delayed dipole discharging, [1] a phenomenon that is also called dielectric relaxation ...