EDN - January 9, 2003

Energy-storing supercapacitors have electrical parameters and occupy a functional position between ordinary capacitors and batteries; you use the components primarily as power sources or reserves. Although you use them to store energy, supercapacitors' characteristics differ fundamentally from those of batteries.

• Departments and Columns
• edn.comment
• Surrounded by gray, tangled up in blue

• Features
• Tech Trends
• Debunking the distance-learning myth

• How It Works
• What is DBS, and what makes it work?

• Leading Edge
• Go fabless