[Red Badger]

In this undated photo released by Murata Manufacturing Co., its latest capacitor, measuring just 0.25 millimeter by 0.125 millimeter, right, is pointed by a mechanical pencil as it is displayed with its bigger size models. Small is big for Murata: The Japanese electronics maker has developed the world's tiniest component known as the capacitor. And that's big business. Capacitors, which store electric energy, are used in the dozens, even in the hundreds, in just about every type of gadget - smartphones, laptops, hybrid cars, medical equipment and digital cameras. (AP Photo/Murata Manufacturing Co.)

In this Oct. 4, 2011 file photo, bicycle-riding robot "Murata Seisaku-kun," or "Murata Boy," performs on a narrow rail during a demonstration by Murata Manufacturing Co., at the CEATEC Japan, Japan's biggest consumer electronics show, in Chiba near Tokyo. Small is big for Murata: The Japanese electronics maker, best known for its bicycle-riding robot, has developed the world's tiniest component known as the capacitor. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye, File)

[Red Badger]

Ping!...........

[Wurlitzer]

Article is big on business numbers and small on the actual device.

I like the achievement but more meat on the device would have been helpful.

What is the capacitance range
What is the Max Voltage.
What is its leakage
What is its internal resistance

Unless it has a usable capacitance and voltage rating and unless resistors, ICs are reduced in size seems this might be a nice device on paper waiting for an application.

[backwoods-engineer]

I solder 0402 (0.020" x 0.040") capacitors and resistors by hand all the time.

Using a microscope, I bet I could solder their small one, above. I've soldered beam-lead PIN diodes before, which really are just passivated dies with flat bond wires.