Energy storage in polymer laminate structures-aging and diagnostic approaches for life validation

Over the last decades, significant increases in passively insulated electronic's reliability have been achieved through a combination of advanced manufacturing techniques, new materials, and diagnostic methodologies to provide requisite life-cycle reliability for high power applications. This is particularly true for advanced capacitors for filtering and energy storage applications. Recent innovations in analysis of aging under near-inservice conditions and frequencies are applied to predicting, from fundamental principles and for the first time, both microscale and at-scale passive component performance and fault tolerance. In addition, voltage scaling issues that may drive overvoltage performance will be described in some detail.