One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into ...

A hybrid Cessna 337 taxied down a Southern California runway and lifted into the air. The plane, a type commonly used as an ...

The new fabrication technique for all-2D transistors on flexible substrates offers a sustainable alternative, boosting ...

Equal resistors R added in series with both emitters will develop voltages Vr = I1*R and I2*R that will be equal if the ...

A stacked chip captures, encrypts, and searches image data directly on hardware, combining photodetection, memory, and key ...

Life depends on motion. To eat, go home, or explore, we must know where we are, where we want to go and how to get there. We ...

The UA Power Group designed a silicon carbide-based motor drive for the hybrid version of a plane commonly used as an air ...

It ‘s worth noting that back EMF plays a critical role as a natural current limiter during normal motor operation. When motor ...

Could a single memristor replace both the driving transistor and storage capacitor in micro-LEDs? Prof. Tae-Geun Kim and team ...