SMD Articles and Information

[joubjonn]

Good article about capacitor materials, why they use what they use
http://www.newelectronics.co.uk/electronics-technology/capacitors-continue-to-evolve/36716/

and another one about Niobium caps replacing tantalum, now i wonder how many of my SMD tantalum caps are actually not!
http://www.digikey.com/supply-chain-hq/us/en/articles/buying-conditions/niobium-capacitors-slow-to-take-hold/1452

 

[necromancer]

tantalum caps are troublesome for me too.

 

[joubjonn]

see page 169 on this pdf link

http://www.avx.com/docs/masterpubs/tantniob.pdf

it shows the symbols used on the niobium and on the tantalum caps to be a little different, atleased for AVX components.