How to Use capacitance in a Sentence

capacitance

noun

• Meanwhile, a capacitance sensor measures the electrical charge in the leaf.
  — Nathan Hurst, Smithsonian, 27 Sep. 2017
• Touchscreens like those in smartphones and tablets work by detecting changes in capacitance, or how much electric charge a material can store.
  — Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2011
• These exchanges alter the quantum dot's ability to store charge (its capacitance, in other words), a property that can be measured.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2022
• But at high frequencies, the capacitance between the coil and washer saps a signal’s power instead of amplifying it.
  — Rachel Courtland, IEEE Spectrum, 1 May 2014
• But for its true micron size, the new device shows an exceptionally high capacitance, says Misra.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• Fingerprint scanners work on this same principle, just at a level small enough to measure the ridges and valleys of your fingerprint—a ridge will affect capacitance more than a valley, and thus an electrical fingerprint is measured.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Oct. 2018
• This process packs a lot of capacitance into a compact device, using spongelike geometry rather than the stacked or rolled layers that most other capacitors use.
  — Eric Schlaepfer, IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• Neurons firing action potentials that affect the downstream cells they are wired to (via synapses) are one type of mechanism, as are electronic circuits, made of transistors, capacitances, resistances and wires.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Dec. 2019
• For polymer capacitors, the capacitance is growing in parallel to the temperature rise.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Nov. 2018
• And this is particularly a problem at high frequencies, which are more susceptible, particularly to the capacitance side of things.
  — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 13 Apr. 2023
• Together with the additional capacitance reduction that results from scaling, Intel was able to reduce the number of fins per transistor in the Intel 4 cell library without hurting performance.
  — Steven Leibson, Forbes, 13 June 2022
• These new interconnects will also need better insulation, lest signal-sapping capacitance take away all their advantage.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Mar. 2023
• In traditional floating gates, insulators separate individual cells, which results in undesired capacitance between cells.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2020
• Micron's replacement-gate architecture instead builds multiple cells into a single insulating structure, virtually eliminating cell-to-cell capacitance, and (according to Micron) increasing write endurance, power efficiency, and performance.
  — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 11 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024