An economic offline technique for estimating the equivalent circuit of aluminum electrolytic capacitors

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2697-2710

  Amaral, Acácio M R ^a   Cardoso, A J Marques ^b,c  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurement; Capacitors; Failure analysis; Life estimation; Newton Raphson method; Resistance measurement; Switch mode power supplies

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CAPACITANCE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MANUFACTURE; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; STATIC CONVERTERS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; LIFE ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM DISSIPATIONS; RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SWITCH-MODE POWER SUPPLIES;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 57049112711     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.925013     Document Type: Article

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