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An overview or tutorial about the basics of the silver mica capacitor, its construction, properties and the uses of silver mica capacitors particularly in RF circuits.

Silver mica capacitors have been widely used as high performance capacitors over the years. Although silver mica capacitors are not as widely used, these days, nevertheless they are still available and used in a variety of applications where their particular properties are needed.
 
Silver mica capacitors are able to provide very high levels of accuracy, stability and low loss. As a result silver mica capacitors found many uses in radio frequency applications, particular for oscillator and filter circuits where their stability, accuracy and low loss (leading to high Q) were needed. Although not as widely used these days, they can still be obtained and are used where stability of value is of the utmost importance and where low loss is required. 
 
Two main reason for the decline in the use of silver mica capacitors is their size, resulting from the materials used and their construction. The cost of silver mica capacitors is higher than many other types that can often be used these days.
 
Silver mica capacitor properties

The reason for the continued use of silver mica capacitors is the fact that they can offer very high levels of performance, better in many areas than any other type of capacitor. However in many applications, other more modern technologies provide levels of performance that meets the needs for that particular requirement.
 
The particular properties of the silver mica capacitor are summarised below:
 
•High accuracy: Silver mica capacitors can be obtained with tolerance figures of +/- 1%. This is much better than virtually every other form of capacitor available today.
•Temperature co-efficient: The temperature co-efficient of silver mica capacitors is much better than most other types of capacitor. The temperature coefficient is positive and is normally in the region 35 to 75 ppm / C, with +50 ppm / C being an average value
•Value range: Values for silver mica capacitors are normally in the range between a few picofarads up to two or possibly three thousand picofarads.
•Low capacitance variation with voltage :   Silver mica capacitors exhibit very little voltage dependence.
•High Q:  Silver mica capacitors have very high levels of Q and conversely small power factors. These are both almost independent of frequency.

Although silver mica capacitors have a high tolerance and low temperature co-efficient they are known to jump in value on occasions.
 
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