This video explains how transistors work and how they are used to switch and amplify electrical signals in electronic ...

A Planet Analog article, “2N3904: Why use a 60-year-old transistor?” by Bill Schweber, inspired some interest in this old transistor and how it’s commonly used, and if any uncommon uses might exist.

Leakage through parasitic body diodes in MOSFETs: Unintended current paths can form through transistor body diodes, ...

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST; Saudi Arabia) researchers have set a record in microchip design, ...

Back in 1966, a suitable toy for a geeky kid was a radio kit. You could find simple crystal radio sets or some more advanced ...

Let’s say you want to blink an LED. You might grab an Arduino and run the Blink sketch, or you might lace up a few components to a 555. But you needn’t go so fancy! [The Design ...

As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

An RGB LED module is a versatile lighting component that can produce millions of colours by mixing red, green, and blue light. The RGB LED module used in this ESP32-S3 Box-3 Arduino programming ...

This article appears in the November 2025 print issue as “Diamond Blankets Will Chill Future Chips.” Today’s stunning ...

Solar-powered calculators may have familiarized a new generation with green energy. On the other hand, maybe they were just cool.

The recent Intel Technology Tour was much more than a product launch. The event showed the company's progress in leading-edge ...

Researchers have introduced a novel technique that allows for the direct patterning of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor ...