One of the joys of writing up the entries for the 2025 Component Abuse Challenge has come in finding all the different alternative uses for the humble transistor. This building block of all modern ...

Smoke detectors that only beep at night are acting up for a specific reason: Here's what can save your sanity and sleep.

In a new paper published in Nature Photonics, researchers at Columbia Engineering have discovered that the thin-film metallic resistor routinely used to thermally tune photonic devices to the desired ...

If your CPU is struggling to maintain its advertised boost clocks by a noticeable amount despite its temps looking normal, ...

The Thermal Master P1 uses a VOx 160×120 microbolometer sensor, which is adequate for basic thermal imaging but falls short ...

Abstract: The increasing integration of electronic components and the complexity of printed circuit boards (PCBs) necessitate more efficient, accurate, and safe PCB inspection requirements. Using ...

Abstract: Heat flux density is an important parameter for evaluating the high-temperature performance of turbine blades. Accurate heat flux density data play a significant role in the design and ...