Calculator for Total Capacitance of a Circular Capacitor, including edge effect

This calculator finds the total capacitance of a circular parallel plate capacitor from radius, ε_r and thickness using the formula below.

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The total capacitance of a circular parallel plate capacitor including edge effect, can be calculated using the following equation which is derived from Kirchhoff's equation for a circular capacitor.

Where:

r is the Radius in mm

ε_r is the Relative Dielectric Constant

d is the Dielectric thickness in mm

d << r

The calculator can be used to check results obtained with the Accurate Method for Measuring Relative Dielectric Constant of a PCB Using a Vector Network Analyser

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	INPUT DATA

Relative Dielectric Constant (ε_r):
Radius:	mm
Dielectric Thickness:	mm

	RESULTS

Capacitance without edge effect:	pF
Capacitance with edge effect:	pF