Component makers often publish data that is erroneous, vague, incomplete, and frequently misleading. What is surprising is that engineers are willing to accept the manufacturer-supplied data at face ...

In the early digital era, logic gates were made exclusively of transistors and discrete components. The obvious occupation of a large space and increased heat dissipation pushed technology to ...

Mark McDonnell holds an Australian Research Fellowship funded by the Australian Research Council. He also receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. He is affiliated with ...

Electronic devices are built from many different parts. Understanding how these components work together is key to understanding electronics. Circuit diagrams use symbols to represent each component, ...

Though it may be adequate in some cases, a design where the components are chosen without giving due consideration to the information contained in the data sheet may not be the optimum one. A device's ...

Scientists are making significant progress in quantum physics, developing new ways to study quantum phenomena that could lead ...

Flexible integrated circuits represent the cutting-edge. It may be a while before they go into production, but new designs are moving closer to the goal. Most integrated circuits are implemented on ...

Scientists have engineered one of the world's smallest electronic circuits. It is formed by two wires separated by only about 150 atoms or 15 nanometers. A team of scientists, led by Guillaume Gervais ...