Teflon is great for dielectric absorption and insulation, but its temperature coefficient is ghastly. It goes through a phase change right around room temp.
It's hard to find teflon caps above about 50 pF.
The second ADC that I designed was a dual-slope, and in ignorance I used a mylar cap as the integrator. It was terrible, several per cent error. A tech fixed it for me.
C0Gs are usually good. SiO2 (MIS) caps are superb, but are usually found inside chips. There are some for sale as discretes.
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Vacuum capacitors have pretty low DA.
We need a high-K vacuum.
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I'd be very surprised if he didn't have to in any event, since the sorts of relaxation processes that give rise to soakage must have fairly dramatic temperature dependences.
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Phil Hobbs
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I found this yesterday, but couldn't really see any prices or specs...
It looks bigger than 50 pF :^)
George h.
If you make the plates out of neutronium, that might help out.
As a bonus, it may be a high temperature superconductor, which is nice.
As a downside, it'll have lower energy storage capacity -- y'know, too much and the whole thing collapses. Pesky, that.
Tim
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How do the plates change the permativity of the dielectric?
The empty space between the plates would be intensely curved (high gravitational field), and the geometry non-Euclidian.
Sadly, empty space next to neutronium isn't going to stay empty long - it won't last any longer than the neutronium which doesn't seem to be stable anywhere except inside a star with at least 20% of mass of the sun.
Not really. It would probably explode before you could get the bits close enough together to collapse.
-- Bill Sloman, Sydney
Some sort of multiple-parallel-plate MEMS vacuum cap should be possible, with really tiny plate spacing. But MIS SiO2 caps are really good. Those are used inside ICs to make capacitive ADCs and such.
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