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capacitor

Capacitor object

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Description

Use the capacitor class to create a capacitor object that you can add to an existing circuit.

Capacitor representation

Creation

Syntax

cobj = capacitor(cvalue)
cobj = capacitor(cvalue,cname)

Description

cobj = capacitor(cvalue) creates a capacitor object, cobj, with a capacitance of cvalue and default name, C.cvalue must be a real scalar.

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cobj = capacitor(cvalue,cname) creates a capacitor object, cobj, with a capacitance of cvalue and name cname. cname must be a character vector.

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Properties

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Capacitance value specified as a real scalar in farads.

Example: 1e-12

Example: cobj.Capacitance = 1e-12

Name of capacitor object, specified as a character vector. Two elements in the same circuit cannot have the same name.

Example: 'cap'

Example: cobj.Name = 'cap'

Names of the terminals of capacitor object, specified as a cell vector. These names are always p and n.

Example: {'p' 'n'}

Example: cobj.Terminals = {'p' 'n'}

Full path of the circuit to which the capacitor object belongs, specified as character vector. This path appears only after the capacitor is added to the circuit.

Note

"ParentPath" is only displayed after the capacitor has been added

into a circuit.

Circuit nodes in the parent nodes connect to capacitor terminals, specified as a vector of integers. This property appears only after the capacitor is added to a circuit.

Example: [1 2]

Example: lobj.ParentNodes = [1 2]

Note

"ParentNodes" are only displayed after the capacitor has been added

into a circuit.

Object Functions

cloneCreate copy of existing circuit element or circuit object

Examples

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Open Live Script

Create a capacitor of capacitance 2 microfarad and display its properties.

hC1 = capacitor(2e-6);
disp(hC1)
  capacitor: Capacitor element

    Capacitance: 2.0000e-06
           Name: 'C'
      Terminals: {'p'  'n'}
Open Live Script

Create a capacitor and extract S-parameters of the capacitor. 

hC = capacitor(2e-6,'C2uf');
hckt = circuit('example2');
add(hckt,[1 2],hC)
setports(hckt, [1 0],[2 0])
freq = linspace(1e3,2e3,100);
S = sparameters(hckt,freq);
disp(S)
  sparameters with properties:

      Impedance: 50
       NumPorts: 2
     Parameters: [2x2x100 double]
    Frequencies: [100x1 double]
Open Live Script

Add capacitor to a circuit, display the parent path and parent nodes. 

hC3 = capacitor(3e-6,'C3uf');
hckt3 = circuit('example3');
add(hckt3,[1 2],hC3)
setports(hckt3, [1 0],[2 0])
disp(hC3)
  capacitor: Capacitor element

    Capacitance: 3.0000e-06
           Name: 'C3uf'
      Terminals: {'p'  'n'}
    ParentNodes: [1 2]
     ParentPath: 'example3'

Version History

Introduced in R2013b

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