From smartphones and CPUs to electric vehicles and power supplies, there's one tiny component that makes modern technology ...

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 ...

USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These ...

A hybrid Cessna 337 taxied down a Southern California runway and lifted into the air. The plane, a type commonly used as an ...

The new fabrication technique for all-2D transistors on flexible substrates offers a sustainable alternative, boosting ...

For the Component Abuse Challenge our hacker [Tim Williams] observes that N-P-N reads the same way forwards and backwards, so ...

Could a single memristor replace both the driving transistor and storage capacitor in micro-LEDs? Prof. Tae-Geun Kim and team ...

A breakthrough in neuromorphic computing could lower the energy consumption of chips and accelerate progress toward artificial general intelligence (AGI). Researchers from the USC Viterbi School of En ...

A stacked chip captures, encrypts, and searches image data directly on hardware, combining photodetection, memory, and key ...

Equal resistors R added in series with both emitters will develop voltages Vr = I1*R and I2*R that will be equal if the ...

The whole thing comprises 41 layers of metals, organic materials, and semiconductors; that's more layers than you'd find in ...

Life depends on motion. To eat, go home, or explore, we must know where we are, where we want to go and how to get there. We ...