There are many applications which require pulse power. The needed burst of energy is derived by rapidly discharging a previously charged capacitor. As the energy stored in a capacitor is equal to ...

Your phone died. Again. In these scenarios, who among us has not dreamed the dream of a future where our devices charge instantly and last forever. As capacitors—or even more exciting, ultracapacitors ...

EEStar EEStor, a Texas company run by ex-IBM employees, is set to make a long awaited breakthrough in battery tech, claiming that it has a capacitor based battery which will up the range of an ...

Engineers have discovered a method to increase the amount of electric charge that can be stored in graphene, a two-dimensional form of carbon. The research may provide a better understanding of how to ...

The electric vehicle industry's focus on battery capacity has overlooked the critical and volatile supply chain for passive power electronics, particularly capacitors, which are facing thermal, ...

Ultracapacitors, also referred to as supercapacitors, continue to make inroads into a wide range of applications, where their high power density enables them to supplement or replace batteries. Today, ...

The capacitor is one of the most important electrical components, and we’ll learn how it works in this second part of the basic electronics course for kids. It will be explored in terms of energy ...

Awhile back I was speaking to my uncle who worked at IBM fixing power supplies that they created for pcs. I asked him how dangerous it was to put your hands inside the power supply after he tests it ...

A large capacitor is charged by a 6 V battery or a 15 V DC power supply. When a copper rod is shorted across the terminals of the capacitor, a large spark is produced. The spark is obviously more ...