A capacitor, along with resistors and inductors, belongs to a group of components known as passive devices. These components do not produce or amplify energy; instead, they can only store, absorb, or ...

Many power supplies use hold-up capacitors to keep enough energy at the full-wave or bridge rectifier output to supply a load when the rectified voltage drops and rises again at the next half-cycle of ...

Abstract: In a single-phase grid-connected two-stage converter with power factor correction, the design of the DC-link capacitor possesses a fundamental trade-off between the capacitor size and ...