This section provides an overview for feedthrough capacitors as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 16 feedthrough capacitor manufacturers and their company rankings.
A feedthrough capacitor is a type of filter element used in electronic circuits. A feedthrough capacitor is a capacitor with a feedthrough connection. A feedthrough connection is a method of cutting the line pattern from which noise is to be removed and inserting a component in between, and it is often used as a noise countermeasure over a wide range of frequencies.
Field-through capacitors are generally three-terminal and are available in leaded and chip types. They are also called feedthrough capacitors or EMI filters.
Feedthrough capacitors are used as noise-cutoff filters and are often used in electronic equipment's power supply lines. In recent years, electronic equipment has become increasingly low-voltage and high-frequency due to power saving, and noise countermeasures have become more critical.
Feed-through connections are generally made by connecting feedthrough in series with the power supply line. However, the disadvantage is that current flows directly into the chip, so the device's rated current is limited.
One of the most commonly used capacitors is a chip multilayer ceramic capacitor, generally a two-terminal capacitor. The internal structure consists of a thin dielectric sheet sandwiched between layers of electrodes. Although the structure ensures capacitance, a slight inductance component remains inside. Therefore, the residual inductance at higher frequencies becomes non-negligible, resulting in a degradation of high-frequency characteristics.
In contrast, a three-terminal capacitor, such as a feedthrough capacitor, has ground terminals on both sides of the component in addition to the regular capacitor and has a structure that alternately stacks the directly connected electrode and the ground electrode across the dielectric. This structure results in an LC T-type filter configuration, where the ground electrodes are connected over a short distance, thus reducing the effect of the inductance component.
Therefore, compared to general capacitors, the effect of the inductance component is smaller, so the performance does not deteriorate up to the high-frequency range. The component structure is suitable for removing noise up to high frequencies.
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WIN SOURCE is a customer-focused online store serving a wide variety of markets industries ranging from consumer to automotive to medical, industrial, and aerospace. WS specializes on size and speed, offering a catalog of over 1 million SKUS that can be shipped within 24 hours around the world. Offerings include an extensive array of semiconductor components, audio products, cable assemblies, racks, and battery products. WIN SOURCE is AS9120B, ISO9001, ISO14001, and ISO45001 certified and is a member of the anti-counterfeiting organization, ERAI.
Syscom Tech is headquartered in Moorestown, New Jersey. Syscom Tech is a manufacturer of electronics for numerous industries including automotive, chemical, computer, aerospace, medical, industrial, security, and telecommunications. Syscom’s facilities are AS9100/ISO 9001 certified. Syscom Tech’s product offerings include PCB design and assembly, cable assembly and wire harness arrangement, as well as electro-mechanical assembly. Additional services for electro-mechanical assembly include box build assembly, turnkey PCB assembly, and other high quality PCB assembly solutions.
Hybrid Electronics is a global distribution specialist of electronic components, with access to over 50 million unique components. Among the markets HE serves are the aerospace, automotive, communications, defense, industrial, medical, national security, and test & measurement industries. In addition to components, HE also provides quality and compliance testing, counterfeit detection, upscreening, and other forms of quality control. Examples of component subtypes that HE offers include ICs, batteries, capacitors, semiconductor products, sensors, circuit protection, interconnectors, filters, optoelectronics, relays, switches, power supplies, and cables and cable assemblies.
American Distributors LLC (ADI) was founded in 1983 and has corporate offices in Randolph, New Jersey. ADI manufactures and distributes products for medical diagnostics, industrial usage, maritime usage, aerospace, and military. ADI is ISO 9001:2015 certified. ADI’s product line includes capacitors, chip resistors, coils, chocks, connectors, crystals, diodes, fans, filters, fuses, hardware & accessories, heat shrinkable tubing, inductors, integrated circuits, lamps & lighting development, networks equipment, Parylene coating, relays, resistors, semiconductors, IC sockets & terminals, switches, transistors, and wire & cable.
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