Selecting a dielectric material for a capacitor
Design introduction and problem
A capacitor is a device for electrical charge. A simple capacitor is two plates made of an electrically conducting material separated by a non-conducting material or dielectric. A capacitor can come in a huge variety of sizes and types for use in regulating power as well as for conditioning, smoothing and isolating signals. Almost every electrical and electronic system uses them. [1]
In a way, capacitors are like batteries. Although they work in completely different ways, capacitors and batteries both store electrical energy in the form of electrons. The difference between a capacitor and a battery is that a capacitor can use its entire charge in a fraction of
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The dielectric constant of a material, also called the permittivity of a material is the ability of a material to store electrical energy in the presence of an electric field. Unfortunately, there is a limit on the voltage an insulator can withstand before conducting electricity, that limit is defined as the dielectric strength also known as the breakdown voltage. [2]
A photoflash capacitor is normally an electrolytic capacitor used in professional flashes. The purpose is to briefly power a high-voltage flash tube, used to illuminate a photographic subject.
Function
Dialectric material for a photoflash electrolytic capacitor used in a small disposable and compact camera. The photoflash capacitor should be designed to deliver a brief pulse of very high current.
Constraints Objectives
Dielectric constant: 5 As cheap as possible
Dielectric strength: 15,5 MV/m
Must be a good insulator
Recyclable
Free variables
Choice of material
A company called PhotoGenic are developing a photoflash for a new series of cameras. The developers are looking for a dielectric material for the capacitor and have created constraints and objectives to find a material with the right
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Ewald Georg von Kleist is a German scientist who created the capacitor in November of 1745. Regrettably, Kleist did not have the proper paper work to claim in the records that the design of the capacitor was his idea. Many months later, a Dutch professor named Pieter van Musschenbroek created the Leyden jar, the world’s first capacitor (on record). It was a simple jar that was half filled with water and metal above it. A metal wire was connected to it and that wire released charges. Benjamin Franklin created his own version of the Leyden jar, the flat capacitor. This was the same experiment for the more part, but it had a flat piece of glass inside of the jar. Michael Faraday was the first scientist to apply this concept to transport electric power over a large distance. Faraday created the unit of measurement for a capacitor, called Farad.
At higher frequencies, the dielectric constants are almost independent of frequency. This is because, at higher frequencies periodic reversal of the field takes place so rapidly that the charge carriers will hardly be able to orient
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