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

Using ultracold atoms and laser light, researchers recreated the behavior of a Josephson junction—an essential component of ...

A new twist on bromine-based flow batteries could make large-scale energy storage cheaper, safer, and far longer-lasting. Bromine-based flow batteries store and release energy through a chemical ...

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 ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

If you read about Hall effect sensors — the usual way to detect and measure magnetic fields these days — it sounds ...

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