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The road to creating a blue LED was long and rough, but in 1993, it burst onto the scene. Learn about the struggles and breakthroughs to find the right recipe.
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The seductive appeal of in-road inductive charging, which means EVs no longer tethered to fixed charging stations, along with actual small-scale implementation, suggest that it...
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The new technology and foundry collaboration aims to expand U.S. capacity for GaN power devices.
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Solid-state cooling pushes ahead further with the use of higher-performance materials compatible with standard production processes.

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Explore how to safeguard power and data transmission in modern Ethernet-based systems.
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What you need to know about the new JEDEC 230G standard for flash-memory design.
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Organic TFTs are shaking up the display world, offering flexible new design possibilities that challenge the long-standing dominance of amorphous-silicon transistors.
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Power relays are specifically designed to handle either AC or DC. It’s important to know the fundamental differences between them before building them into a system.
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PCIe validation is easier and faster using the Palladium Emulator versus applying FPGA-based methods.

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These X- and Y-capacitors in surface-mount housings, built to suppress EMI, reduce cost, and simplify production.
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Peugeot’s Polygon concept car reinvents the wheel — steer-by-wire eliminates the steering column.
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Find out where transistor technology is headed, as gate-all-around takes the next step beyond FinFETs.
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Is the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) living up to its promise of portable verification and validation across levels of hierarchy and platforms?
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A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.
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HBM4 will be essential when it comes to successfully handling the demands of AI in the cloud.
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NVIDIA's Alpamayo-R1 AI model improves how self-driving cars “think” for route planning and other real-time driving decisions.

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Advanced recycling technologies offer great promise to reducing North America’s reliance on imported critical minerals. Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman, the CEO of Cyclic Materials, explains...
Gallium-nitride power designs have triple the power of silicon with half the weight and size, plus the added bonus of 20X the speed of silicon.
As the technologies presented here and others like it continue to advance and become more prevalent, perhaps Tesla’s dream of a completely wireless world may come to fruition....
Multimeters are one of the most fundamental pieces of test equipment in any lab, but they can often do much more than we realize. Let's take a look at the variety of measurements...
Any engineer testing electronic devices cares about accuracy, which depends on the DC programmable power supply’s specifications, how it monitors the output, and how it’s wired...
The novel Christmas tree lights were seen as a marvel in a time when most people still feared electricity.
SETI combines cutting-edge radio astronomy, data science, and planetary research in a global effort to detect signs of intelligent life in the universe.
Born in the golden age of arcade games, Pac-Man turned a yellow circle and four quirky ghosts into a global obsession that’s still being played 45 years later.

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