Introduction to electrochemical capacitor technology

This article was intended to improve understanding of EC technology by evoking those aspects of this technology most likely to be familiar to traditional component engineers. Hopefully such an enhanced familiarity will enable material scientists to contribute to advancing the technology and give component engineers greater confidence to broadly and effectively use it. There are applications for which each and every technology shines, for very different reasons, and the task then is to select the most optimum technology for any given system being designed.