A single full electrode is provided on one side of the capacitor and split electrodes on the other side. This is a three-terminal capacitor which can be used as two capacitors with a common electrode or as serially connected capacitors so that connections may be made on one side of the chip only (surface-mount). This design is often used in microstrip coupling to eliminate lead inductance and raise the self resonance frequency. The table shows industry standard SMT sizes, however unlimited variations are available to meet your application requirements.

This capacitor chip consists of two capacitors in series, each of which is two times the desired capacitance, and thus two times the area, in order to achieve the desired equivalent capacitance. Therefore, to determine the size of the chip for any desired capacitance, length or width, the following formula applies: Length = (2A + 2A / Width) + Gap