Shapeable short-resistant capacitor

A method that employs a novel combination of conventional fabrication techniques provides a ceramic short-resistant capacitor (30) that is bendable and/or shapeable to provide a multiple layer capacitor that is extremely compact and amenable to desirable geometries. The method allows thinner and more flexible ceramic capacitors to be made. The method includes forming a first thin metal layer (12) on a substrate (10); depositing a thin, ceramic dielectric layer (14) over the metal layer (12); depositing a second thin metal layer (18) over the dielectric layer to form a capacitor exhibiting a benign failure mode; and separating the capacitor (30) from the substrate (10).