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

With a 4k1 collector resistor and 16mA drive into the led, the chosen (read ‘cheapest on ebay’) 6N135 is supposed to beat 1.5μs for both turn on and turn off, with typical figures of 90ns and 800ns.

On November 6, the Kingdom of Morocco will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Green March (Al-Massira Al-Khadrae), a ...

Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and Tongji University have developed FerroAI, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have fabricated ultra-thin memtransistor arrays from ...

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 ...

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