Are recent capacitors better than 1994-2002?

It appears that the trend is by now reversed, and recent capacitors are a bit better than the ones from 1994–2002. Can experts confirm it? Only a wild-arsed guess, so not an answer.

What affects capacitance?

The differentiating factor that affects capacitance is the area of the plate and the separation between the two plates. More charge can increase the capacitance, but the separation is a limiting factor.

How does a negative plate affect the performance of a capacitor?

The side of the electric toward the negative plate thus has a relative shortage of electrons, drawing electrons toward the negative plate, while the side toward the positive plate has a surplus of electrons, pushing electrons away from the positive plate. This behavior can improve the performance of a capacitor by many orders of magnitude.

Why did cheap capacitors become a problem?

Presumably the cheaper manufacturers had missed something or cut some corners while reproducing (or ripping off) the Japanese research. The type of capacitor affected was cheap, large capacitance, low ESR capacitors. These are the kind of thing that appears in huge numbers of consumer devices, so the problem became known in the wider community.

Does output capacitance affect startup behaviour?

Too much of capacity will also influence the startup behaviour; some regulators will not start up. Here are some qualitative considerations for stability as a function of output capacitance ( C o) with the MPM3610.

Why is capacitance more important than potential?

For the same charge, less potential is required, because the close proximity of the plates allow the potential to be partially cancelled, and therefore this ratio is called capacitance, because for the same potential you can achieve more charge on the plates.