Ceramic Input Capacitors Can Cause Overvoltage Transients.pdf Application Note 88 March 2001 Ceramic Input Capacitors Can Cause Overvoltage Transients Goran Perica A recent trend in the design of portable devices has been Building the Test Circuit to use ceramic capacitors to filter DC/DC converter inputs. To illustrate the problem, a typical 24V wall adapter used Ceramic capacitors are often chosen because of their in notebook computer applications was connected to the small size, low ……