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Zinc Microcapacitors Are the Best of Both Worlds

52 points by Brajeshwar - 4 comments
myself248 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Sounds like a good match for sensor nodes where energy harvesting may be slow and consumption is intermittent. You don't need massive energy capacity, but you need good power density to support transmit bursts, and you need very high cycle durability.
dvh [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What's wrong with C0G?
marcosdumay [3 hidden]5 mins ago
They are not even the same kind of component.

If you try to make an integrator out of this thing, you'll have a very bad time.

magicalhippo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very low dielectric constant, so low capacitance for a given size[1].

It also seema these devices are more 2D than 3D so surface area matters more than volume[2].

[1]: https://blog.knowlescapacitors.com/blog/capacitor-fundamenta...

[2]: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsomega.2c07549