Ceramic Capacitor Microphonics

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Will surface mount ceramic capacitors pick up mechanical flexure in a PCB?

I've been reading that they are piezoelectric/microphonic, so I assume yes. It seems like this wouldn't be a problem for bypass capacitors, but could be a problem for caps used in measurement circuits.

Also, anyone know good online resources to read about capacitor micophonics in depth?
 
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ceramic caps are at times known to be micro-phonic.
some other sites report that any dielectric material would have microphonic behavior.
please see the link
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Ceramic capacitors are microphonic and also cause audio distortion of low frequencies when they change their value with the voltage changes of the signal.
Therefore I always use metalized plastic film capacitors for audio coupling.
 
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