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EEVblog #855 - Ceramic Capacitor Piezoelectric Effect

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An EEVblog video demonstrating audible whine from ceramic capacitors, linked when people ask why a circuit board is making a high pitched noise.

Watch for: Mostly cited as supporting evidence rather than as a tutorial

In their words

High-K ceramic caps (ie, not C0G) are piezoelectric: they expand, contract and flex depending on the voltage applied to them, which means they convert voltage ripple into sound.

bobflux on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jan 2020. CC BY-SA.

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