Abstract:
A capacitor, and method of making a capacitor, is provided wherein the capacitor has exceptionally high break down voltage. The capacitor has a tantalum anode with an anode wire attached thereto. A dielectric film is on the tantalum anode. A conductive polymer is on the dielectric film. An anode lead is in electrical contact with the anode wire. A cathode lead is in electrical contact with the conductive polymer and the capacitor has a break down voltage of at least 60 V.
Abstract:
A capacitor, and method of making a capacitor, is provided wherein the capacitor has exceptionally high break down voltage. The capacitor has a tantalum anode with an anode wire attached thereto. A dielectric film is on the tantalum anode. A conductive polymer is on the dielectric film. An anode lead is in electrical contact with the anode wire. A cathode lead is in electrical contact with the conductive polymer and the capacitor has a break down voltage of at least 60 V.
Abstract:
A method for maintaining quality of monomer during a coating process for intrinsically conductive polymer which suppresses unwanted by-products. A neutralization process using a base or anion exchange resin is used batch-wise or continuous.
Abstract:
High capacitance value capacitors are formed using bimetal foils (120, 130) of an aluminum layer (124, 134) attached to a copper layer (122, 132). The copper side of a bimetallic copper/aluminum foil or a monometallic aluminum foil is temporarily protected using aluminum or other materials, to form a sandwich. The exposed aluminum is treated to increase the surface area of the aluminum by at least one order of magnitude, while not attacking any portion of the protected metal. When the sandwich is separated, the treated bimetal foil (120 or 130) is formed into a capacitor, where the copper layer (122 or 132) is one electrode of the capacitor and the treated aluminum layer (124 and 324 or 134 and 334) is in intimate contact with a dielectric layer (540) of the capacitor.