If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has the answer in the video below. The short answer: you can ...

Variable capacitors may be useful, but the air gap that provides their capacitance is their greatest weakness. Rather than deal with the poor dielectric properties of air, some high-end variable ...

How do you implement a variable capacitor these days? Mechanical caps are out. That leaves varactors, which work fine but require higher voltages that often are not available, and their response is ...

The first British commercially available high-vacuum variable capacitors have been announced by the English Electric Valve Co. So 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March ...

The NCD2100 electronic programmable capacitance IC has a capacitance range of 6.6 to 37.55 pF in small 63-fF steps for shunt configuration. The digitally controlled capacitance trimming setting is ...

What is impedance matching? Applications of impedance matching. Impedance matching and design considerations. Impedance (Z) matching is an essential part of most RF circuit design. Regardless of what ...