What is the intended use? If you want to use those printed capacitors
for high frequency applications mind the transmission line behaviour
of those structures.

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At 10:05 AM 2/11/99 -0600, Karl J. Bates wrote:
>Jimmy,
>        I think this is what you are looking for.
>
>        Karl
>
>http://www.automata.com/newsroom_new/papers/zycon/toc.htm

That's a useful document, but it is not about "printed capacitance," per
se, but about the usage of distributed plane capacitance to supplement or
replace discrete bypass capacitors....

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