| You can make a smart power bar (also called ‘block’; ‘strip’) with one single semiconductor component: a triac!
| You can make a smart power bar (also called ‘block’; ‘strip’) with one single semiconductor component: a triac!
| Elektor has a long history and a good reputation with high-end yet DIY, audio projects. This time we proudly present a new power amplifier a...
| What can go wrong when fitting a component on a circuit board? All sorts of things of course, but in this case the cause turned out to be re...
| At first sight it looks like something that came out of a wizard’s studio — hovering in mid-air and spinning on its own, apparently without...
| Lumileds has introduced, with the name Luxeon UV U1, a new UV LED in a miniature SMD package that measures only 3.5 x 3.5 mm. Despite its ti...
| When choosing an operational amplifier for an application you already know you will be looking at criteria such as supply rail, slew rate, d...
| At the University of Cambridge (UK), a new type of transistor has been developed which operates at extremely low levels of energy making it...
| At first designed simply to reactivate peripherals from standby or sleep states, the process has proved capable of recognising specific gest...
| For DC DC power conversion applications, for example in servers and for battery charging, or more generally in commercial, industrial or aut...
| In cooperation with Würth Elektronik, in this article we present a pair of modules for high-efficiency wireless power transfer with a maximu...