5 comments

  • thomasjb 1 hour ago
    • matherial 37 minutes ago
      All silicon capacitors are relatively expensive, they're specialty parts that generally go into expensive things (mmWave airport scanners, optical backhaul, etc).
      • TheJoeMan 13 minutes ago
        Did they build 5,000 airport scanners at once? MOQ is brutal!
  • dlcarrier 33 minutes ago
    Someone's actually using nF, instead of 0.022uF or 22,000pF.
    • PowerElectronix 21 minutes ago
      I never understood why nF is less frequently used than uF or pF. To me, the logical thing is to express the capacity in units that are between 1 and 1000, like it's done with resistors and inductors.
  • threatripper 46 minutes ago
    Figure 1 made me laugh out loud.
    • aaronmdjones 16 minutes ago
      Same here. That's made my week.
      • tedd4u 3 minutes ago
        1 •--||--• 2

        Figure 1 block diagram

  • lisper 1 hour ago
    Why is this a component? Couldn't you just make one of these out of PCB traces?
    • matherial 44 minutes ago
      No, not if you want 22 nF. That's a pretty substantial capacitance. It would need to be quite big on a PCB. That would mean significant inductance, and thus, bad performance at high frequencies.
    • bri3d 42 minutes ago
      Certainly not at these frequencies and corresponding high capacitance values; getting 22nF out of a PCB even with ECM would require quite a large surface area and at 220GHz you can't have that since your wavelength is so short; you'd just be making a giant resonator instead.
  • rayiner 1 hour ago
    I love the block diagram lol.