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Ceramic capacitors have become the preeminent, general purpose capacitor, especially in SMT chip devices where their low cost makes them especially attractive.  With the emergence of thinner-dielectric, multilayer units with rated voltages of less than 10 V capacitance values in the hundreds of microfarads have become available.  This intrudes on the traditional, high-capacitance province of aluminum electrolytic capacitors.

Ceramic capacitors are not polarized and therefore can be used in AC applications.  The low DF and high capacitance stability of Class 1 and 2 are especially suited to AC and RF applications.