Circuits Assembly Online Magazine - Pentaplex Releases High Energy Pulse Discharge Capacitors

High Energy Pulse Discharge capacitors reportedly set new standards of low equivalent series inductance and high pulse discharge current. ESLs of 5 nanoHenrys and pulse discharge currents of 100,000 Amps have been achieved for a 100 KV 4.0 nanoFarad unit.

The capacitors combine the oldest known inorganic dielectric, MICA, with a proprietary manufacturing process based on low-out gassing PCB technology used at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Advantages include completely solid-state construction with no sealed containers to rupture or oil to leak. Form-factor is completely flexible; units can be custom made to thicknesses less than 1/2 cm for planar transmission line installation to a standard rectangular form factor to drop-in replace lower performance capacitors. Temperature rating is 150°C.

Available ranging from 0.1 to 100 nF and from 20,000 to 200,000 Volts.