Orders of magnitude (capacitance)

This page lists examples of capacitance. Grouped by orders of magnitude.

List of orders of magnitude for capacitance

Factor (Capacitance)	SI prefix	Value	Item
10−45	N/A	1.798 × 10−45	Planck capacitance
10−15	fF	2 fF	Gate capacitance of a MOS transistor, per µm of gate width.
10−14		30 fF	DRAM cell.
10−13		100 fF	Small ceramic capacitor.
		150 fF	Pin to pin capacitance in a SSOP/TSSOP integrated circuit package.
10−12	pF	1 pF	Small mica and PTFE capacitor.
		2 pF	Solderless breadboard, between two adjacent 5-contact columns.
		4 pF	Capacitive sensing of air-water-snow-ice.
		5 pF	Low condenser microphone.
10−11		12 pF	Typical 10× passive oscilloscope probe.
		45 pF	Variable capacitor
		49 pF	Yoga mat of TPE with relative permittivity of 4.5 and 8 mm thick sandwiched between two 1 dm² electrodes.
		50 pF	1 m of Cat 5 network cable (between the two conductors of a twisted pair)
10−10		100 pF	Capacitance of the standard human body model.
			1 m of 50 Ω coaxial cable (between the inner and outer conductors)
			High condenser microphone.
		330 pF	Variable capacitor
10−9	nF	1 nF	Typical leyden jar.
10−8
10−7		100 nF	Small aluminium electrolytic capacitor.
		820 nF	Large mica and PTFE capacitor.
10−6	µF
10−5
10−4		100 µF	Large ceramic capacitor.
10−3	mF	6.8 mF	Small electric double layer supercapacitor.
10−2
10−1
100	F	1 F	Earth–ionosphere capacitance.
		1.5 F	Large aluminium electrolytic capacitor.
101
102
103	kF	5 kF	Large electric double layer supercapacitor.

SI multiples

SI multiples for farad (F)

Submultiples				Multiples
Value	SI symbol	Name		Value	SI symbol	Name
10−1 F	dF	decifarad		101 F	daF	decafarad
10−2 F	cF	centifarad		102 F	hF	hectofarad
10−3 F	mF	millifarad		103 F	kF	kilofarad
10−6 F	µF	microfarad		106 F	MF	megafarad
10−9 F	nF	nanofarad		109 F	GF	gigafarad
10−12 F	pF	picofarad		1012 F	TF	terafarad
10−15 F	fF	femtofarad		1015 F	PF	petafarad
10−18 F	aF	attofarad		1018 F	EF	exafarad
10−21 F	zF	zeptofarad		1021 F	ZF	zettafarad
10−24 F	yF	yoctofarad		1024 F	YF	yottafarad

This SI unit is named after Michael Faraday. As with every International System of Units (SI) unit named for a person, the first letter of its symbol is upper case (F). However, when an SI unit is spelled out in English, it should always begin with a lower case letter (farad)—except in a situation where any word in that position would be capitalized, such as at the beginning of a sentence or in material using title case. Note that "degree Celsius" conforms to this rule because the "d" is lowercase.— Based on The International System of Units, section 5.2.

See also

• Capacitance
• Capacitor
• Types of capacitor
• Metric system
• Scientific notation