If you’ve seen a big air-variable capacitor, you may have noticed that some of the plates may have slots cut into them. Why? [Mr Carlson] has the answer in the video below. The short answer: you can ...

How do you implement a variable capacitor these days? Mechanical caps are out. That leaves varactors, which work fine but require higher voltages that often are not available, and their response is ...

The NCD2100 electronic programmable capacitance IC has a capacitance range of 6.6 to 37.55 pF in small 63-fF steps for shunt configuration. The digitally controlled capacitance trimming setting is ...

For those who enjoy building radio projects, you may have noticed that variable capacitors are not as available as they once were. There was a time when all radio receivers contained at least one, but ...

The first British commercially available high-vacuum variable capacitors have been announced by the English Electric Valve Co. So 64 years ago, started a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of March ...

Of course, we all know that capacitors are conceptually two conductors separated by a dielectric of some sort. But outside of air-variable capacitors you normally don’t see them looking like that. For ...