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 ...

In a new paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers at Columbia Engineering have discovered that the thin-film metallic resistor routinely used to thermally tune photonic devices to the desired ...

Abstract: Smart grid depends on an advanced communication network to collect information from the power grid, and to disseminate control commands to the control devices. To safeguard the power grid, ...