Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode ...

With a 4k1 collector resistor and 16mA drive into the led, the chosen (read ‘cheapest on ebay’) 6N135 is supposed to beat 1.5μs for both turn on and turn off, with typical figures of 90ns and 800ns.

Tiny, brain-inspired devices developed at USC Viterbi are replicating how neurons work in real life. Using atoms instead of ...

Smartphones, computers, cars, solar panels—none of them would work without one key material: the semiconductor. It’s the ...

Physicists finally identified why some quantum materials seemingly lose their electrical conductivity for no reason.