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  2. Capacitor - Wikipedia

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    A capacitor can store electric energy when disconnected from its charging circuit, so it can be used like a temporary battery, or like other types of rechargeable energy storage system. [77] Capacitors are commonly used in electronic devices to maintain power supply while batteries are being changed.

  3. Energy storage - Wikipedia

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    A capacitor can store electric energy when disconnected from its charging circuit, so it can be used like a temporary battery, or like other types of rechargeable energy storage system. [73] Capacitors are commonly used in electronic devices to maintain power supply while batteries change. (This prevents loss of information in volatile memory.)

  4. Applications of capacitors - Wikipedia

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    Energy storage capacitor for camera flash in a vintage Polaroid. A capacitor can store electric energy when it is connected to its charging circuit and when it is disconnected from its charging circuit, it can dissipate that stored energy, so it can be used as a temporary battery. Capacitors are commonly used in electronic devices to maintain ...

  5. Supercapacitor - Wikipedia

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    The electrochemical charge storage mechanisms in solid media can be roughly (there is an overlap in some systems) classified into 3 types: Electrostatic double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) use carbon electrodes or derivatives with much higher electrostatic double-layer capacitance than electrochemical pseudocapacitance, achieving separation of charge in a Helmholtz double layer at the interface ...

  6. Capacitor types - Wikipedia

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    Another type – the electrochemical capacitor – makes use of two other storage principles to store electric energy. In contrast to ceramic, film, and electrolytic capacitors, supercapacitors (also known as electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLC) or ultracapacitors) do not have a conventional dielectric.

  7. Leyden jar - Wikipedia

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    A Leyden jar (or Leiden jar, or archaically, Kleistian jar) is an electrical component that stores a high-voltage electric charge (from an external source) between electrical conductors on the inside and outside of a glass jar. It typically consists of a glass jar with metal foil cemented to the inside and the outside surfaces, and a metal ...

  8. Capacitance - Wikipedia

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    Capacitance is the ability of an object to store electric charge. ... The energy stored in a capacitor is found by integrating the work : =. ...

  9. Electricity - Wikipedia

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    The capacitor is a development of the Leyden jar and is a device that can store charge, and thereby storing electrical energy in the resulting field. It consists of two conducting plates separated by a thin insulating dielectric layer; in practice, thin metal foils are coiled together, increasing the surface area per unit volume and therefore ...