Sakshi Ranjan

Sakshi Ranjan is graduate student at CU Boulder who is pursuing her Masters in Electrical engineering with specialization in Power electronics and PCB Design. She is currently working on establishing a routine method to characterize the ESR of capacitors used in PDN networks.

A Low-Cost Capacitor Characterization System

March 2, 2021

Eric Bogatin, Sakshi Ranjan, Yash Shah, Jeff Cain, and Joe Hock

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Measuring low impedance components with a 2-port vector network analyzer (VNA) is an essential technique that typically requires a VNA that costs more than $20,000. In this article, see how the authors measured an MLCC using $500 and an open-source simulation tool.

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