Article: My capacitor can beat up your capacitor.(comparition between Embedded and Passives capacitors)

One of the reasons for switching from surface mount passives to embedded is the claim that the latter exhibits less parasitic electrical behavior. Ideally, a given passive would be a pure component; a resistor would show only resistance without any hint of capacitance or inductance. But, in reality, each passive always has some amount of the other two, and these tend to become apparent at certain frequencies. Comparing the electrical performance of surface mount and embedded resistors reveals that their parasitic are not very different. Same for inductors. What improvement there is for embedded R's and L's comes not from the components themselves being purer, but because ...

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