Simple experimental techniques to characterize capacitors in a wide range of frequencies and temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1258-1267

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

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE TELECOMUNICAÇÕES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Aluminum electrolytic capacitors; Capacitance measurement; Equivalent series resistance and failure analysis; Measurement systems; Measurements of physical quantities

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROLYTIC ANALYSIS; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT DETECTION; MATLAB;

ACCURACY AND PRECISION; ALUMINUM ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTANCE; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; LEAST MEAN SQUARE ALGORITHMS; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; ON-LINE FAULT DIAGNOSIS; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 77950884499     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2038018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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