Among the different types of capacitors, the multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) is particularly good regarding allowable ripple current. A starting point is to select the key ceramic capacitors to meet the requirements for ripple voltage and current. Table 1 shows five different ceramic capacitors that were chosen for this article.
Ceramic capacitors are well-suited to manage ripple current because they can filter large currents generated by switched-mode power supplies. It is common to use ceramic capacitors of different sizes and values in parallel to achieve the optimum result. In such a case, each capacitor should meet its allowable ripple-current rating.
Select key ceramic capacitors to bypass input ripple current Among the different types of capacitors, the multilayer ceramic capacitor (MLCC) is particularly good regarding allowable ripple current. A starting point is to select the key ceramic capacitors to meet the requirements for ripple voltage and current.
(Note that bulk capacitors such as aluminum electrolytic or tantalum capacitors have high equivalent-series-resistance (ESR). When put in parallel to ceramic capacitors, these bulk capacitors are not designed to take a large ripple current. Thus, I won’t discuss them here.) Figure 1 shows a basic circuit of a buck converter.
Since the equivalent series resistance (ESR) of ceramic capacitors is very low, ripple resulting from ESR can be ignored. Equation 1 is used to estimate the required effective capacitance that will meet the ripple requirement. The worst case for this example occurs at maximum duty cycle, which is less than 50%.
MLCCs are made of alternating layers of metallic electrodes and dielectric ceramic, as shown in figure 1 below. Figure 1: Construction of a multilayer ceramic chip capacitor (MLCC), 1 = Metallic electrodes, 2 = Dielectric ceramic, 3 = Connecting terminals
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