For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so ...

Here is a close look at the common- versus differential-mode voltage and instrumentation amplifier (IA) topologies.

Engineers combine measured data, multi-level behavioral models, and simulation tools to predict real-world performance across ...

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

Halide perovskites is a recently emerged platform for the creation of efficient memristors. In turn, single-crystal inorganic ...

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

Scientists developed a wireless brain implant smaller than a grain of sand that recorded neural activity in mice for 365 days ...

Nearly every piece of technology you use—from smartphones to computers—relies on one revolutionary component: the transistor.

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 ...

Electricity doesn’t just flow freely in every direction—it needs control. That control comes from a tiny but powerful ...

For the first time, a quantum computer has successfully measured pairing correlations (quantum signals that show electrons ...