Electricity powers everything from your phone to your refrigerator—but have you ever wondered how it’s controlled inside a ...

Over the last couple of decades the use of rechargeable batteries has grown enormously, and for most common applications there are ASICs[1] which control battery management with very little additional ...

There have been many different ideas presented for increasing the acoustic output of a piezo buzzer or ultrasonic transducer. Most of them involve rather complicated circuitry that drives up the total ...

The topic of electricity often poses difficulties for many secondary school students in physics lessons. Researchers have now developed and empirically evaluated a new, intuitive curriculum as part of ...

Maybe you are familiar with the op-amp as an extremely versatile component, and you know how to quickly construct a huge variety of circuits with one. Maybe you even have a favorite op-amp or two for ...

Motion electricity generator: Using charge generated by body motion, BISS can power wearable and implantable devices such as smart glasses, wristbands or cardiac ...

Using simple components such as oil, salt water, lipids and proteins, plus routine genetic engineering techniques, it is possible to create simple nanofluidic ...

(TNS) — In theory, electrification sounds simple. Homes and commercial buildings are responsible for almost 30 percent of annual U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, largely due to the burning of natural ...