The pioneering years in the history of capacitors was a time when capacitors were used primarily for gaining an early understanding of electricity, predating the discovery even of the electron.

LDO voltage regulator applications use three main types of capacitors: ceramic, tantalum, and in some larger power applications, aluminum electrolytic. Different capacitor technologies have different ...

Capacitor Metals is gaining progress towards the potential mining of Tantalum and Niobium at the site of the Blue River ...

Also, it was used only for the serial port and expansion ... computer restoration hobbyist replace old electrolytic capacitors with tantalum capacitors, which “are not quite as forgiving when ...