Figure 1 made me laugh out loud.
Hey, at least we know it's not polarized. Knowing's half the battle.
Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11
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#32at what point do you start baking barium titanate into the PCB itself?
Has been done for decades. Buried capacitance materials like FaradFlex MC12TM exist and are really good, but are not too often used.
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#33Why is this a component? Couldn't you just make one of these out of PCB traces?
Not if it is to be 22 nF. To make a 22 nF capacitor using a pair of copper pours separated by a 1.6 mm thick old school two-layer PCB, we would need something like 10 square feet! It would have to be an electronics art project, intended to be displayed on a gallery wall. :) That goes down to something like 90 square inches if the separation is a 0.1mm thick layer of a thin four-layer PCB: still an impractically huge…
Yeah, I actually realized too late that my brain somehow thought that nanofarads were smaller than picofarads. Mea culpa.
Re: Extreme 220GHz+Broadband Silicon Capacitor X2SC 0201M 22nF BV11
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never understood why nF is less frequently used than uF or pF. To me, the logical thing is to express the capacity in units that are between 1 and 1000, like it's done with resistors and inductors.
I, too, had wondered; this seems particularly common in the US. My best theory is that in rough handwriting, n and u/μ can look pretty similar, and everyone sort of agreed to only use u to reduce ambiguity.
There's also a very old convention of using no units at all and assuming that "1" means uF.