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What is difference between film capacitor and ceramic capacitor?

forever074

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Can you answer me some questions:
1. What is difference between film capacitor and ceramic capacitor?
2. In which case we often use film capacitor?
Thanks in advance.
 

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Think plastic sheet vs something a lot more rigid.

One difference is their mechanical characteristics
 

shrtrnd

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I use ceramic capacitors in higher frequency applicatons.
There are a lot of different 'film' capacitors anymore. They all have their own price and performance idiosyncrasises.
Did you have a specific application in mind?
 

forever074

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I use capacitor to filter noise. But i don't know when we should use film capacitor.
 
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