Everyone loves a full-wave bridge rectifier, but there’s no denying that they aren’t 100% efficient due to the diode voltage ...

How to make safe, efficient, and robust products By Paulius Juskevicius, Littelfuse, Inc. Consumers enjoy the benefits of ...

Crowbar circuits have long been the go-to safeguard against overvoltage conditions, prized for their simplicity and ...

Switching has almost always meant “hard" switching, which is simple but comes with all kinds of electrical and thermal ...

Abstract: This letter presents a novel rectifier assisted by a self-bias junction capacitance compensation (JCC) for high-efficiency RF-to-dc conversion across a wide input power range. Unlike ...

Over on YouTube [Lockdown Electronics] reviews an old bit of kit known as the Silicon Controlled Rectifier (SCR). Invented in the 1950s the SCR is a type of thyristor and they were popular back in ...

Antiferromagnetic (AF) materials are made up of atoms or molecules with atomic spins that align in antiparallel directions of ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Transistors are the fundamental building blocks behind today's electronic revolution, powering everything from smartphones to powerful servers by controlling the flow of electrical currents. But ...

Here we describe an electronic system that uses a dedicated water-level sensor to switch off the pump motor as soon as the ...

Zonal architectures enhance efficiency, protection, and scalability across next-generation vehicle platforms By James Colby, ...