Forty to fifty percent of engineering students don't complete their degrees. What gives?
Forty to fifty percent of engineering students don't complete their degrees. What gives?
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have successfully taken repeated "non-demolition"…
Scientists from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science in Japan have successfully taken repeated "non-demolition" measurements of the spin of an electron in a silicon quantum dot (QD), without changing its spin in the process.
Designing hearables can be tricky enough, considering the constraints on power, space, electrical noise, and heat…
Designing hearables can be tricky enough, considering the constraints on power, space, electrical noise, and heat dissipation. Maxim says they're leveling up a new PMIC for the job.
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a device which turns wasted magnetic energy from household devices…
Researchers at Penn State University have developed a device which turns wasted magnetic energy from household devices into electricity that can power sensor networks.
Maybe you've heard of perovskite for solar cells. But what about perovskite LEDs? Can a team of researchers make them a…
Maybe you've heard of perovskite for solar cells. But what about perovskite LEDs? Can a team of researchers make them a viable alternative to organic LEDs or quantum-dot LEDs?
The new evaluation board opens a discussion on the pros and cons of continuous conduction mode PFC circuits and…
The new evaluation board opens a discussion on the pros and cons of continuous conduction mode PFC circuits and bridgeless totem-pole PFC circuits. What's your take?
This article covers the advantages and disadvantages of several common driver circuit design techniques for piezo…
This article covers the advantages and disadvantages of several common driver circuit design techniques for piezo transducer buzzers.
Learn the key parts of an autoencoder, how a variational autoencoder improves on it, and how to build and train a…
Learn the key parts of an autoencoder, how a variational autoencoder improves on it, and how to build and train a variational autoencoder using TensorFlow.
University of Porto researchers have created a simple self-charging battery which offers power solutions for various…
University of Porto researchers have created a simple self-charging battery which offers power solutions for various devices. To create the battery, the researchers used ferroelectric glass electrolyte inside of an electrochemical cell.
One of the trickiest aspects of chip design is figuring out how to pack more circuitry into a smaller footprint while…
One of the trickiest aspects of chip design is figuring out how to pack more circuitry into a smaller footprint while maintaining power, speed, and energy efficiency.
How might this new membrane improve touchscreen designs and transparent PCBs?
How might this new membrane improve touchscreen designs and transparent PCBs?
Nyquist’s contributions were the intellectual building blocks essential to the birth of modern information theory
Nyquist’s contributions were the intellectual building blocks essential to the birth of modern information theory
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a small and precise gyroscope for navigating and tracking…
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a small and precise gyroscope for navigating and tracking autonomous vehicles and drones without the use of GPS.
Scientists at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) have used machine learning to explore spin models that are used in…
Scientists at Tokyo Metropolitan University (TMU) have used machine learning to explore spin models that are used in physics to explore phase transitions.
A new Bluetooth wristband traces a person's contact with other wristband wearers, and if that person tests positive for…
A new Bluetooth wristband traces a person's contact with other wristband wearers, and if that person tests positive for COVID-19, other contacts are notified to quarantine. But does this new device cross the lines of privacy?
A new innovative fabrication technique for reprogrammable photonic circuits has been developed by researchers at…
A new innovative fabrication technique for reprogrammable photonic circuits has been developed by researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Microsoft envisions its Azure real-time operating system—now available to ST, Renesas, NXP, Microchip, and…
Microsoft envisions its Azure real-time operating system—now available to ST, Renesas, NXP, Microchip, and Qualcomm—as a new animating force for billions of MCUs embedded in IoT devices.
Selecting the right switching DC-DC step-down regulator while minimizing EMI can feel like a balancing act. Here's an…
Selecting the right switching DC-DC step-down regulator while minimizing EMI can feel like a balancing act. Here's an idea of how to do it with ADI's new integrated regulator.
This article continues the Image Sensor Technology series by examining details involved in the movement of…
This article continues the Image Sensor Technology series by examining details involved in the movement of light-generated electric charge within a CCD.
Micron, Samsung Electronics, and ON Semiconductor have all stepped in to provide support to their employees and…
Micron, Samsung Electronics, and ON Semiconductor have all stepped in to provide support to their employees and communities that have been hit the hardest by COVID-19.