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We are surrounded with an abundance of clean energy, if we only had a way to harness it it. Most people probably know about solar energy, that we would only need to harness a tiny fraction of it to power the entire world (e.g.  the Sahara desert has ...

Article - Robert Walker - Nov 3 2014 - 10:43pm - 0 attachments

... years. Maybe even in iPhone 10. This transparent transistor, which functions even when wrapped around a thin pen, could help ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2014 - 10:30am - 0 attachments

... by Moore’s Law and related cost trajectories: Transistor density on integrated circuits continues to double every 20 months ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 17 2014 - 9:12am - 0 attachments

... watching YouTube videos. Millions of closely-packed transistor components at near atomic size means chip designers finally have to ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2014 - 5:45pm - 0 attachments

... Tell an electrical engineer you want your two-pole transistor to work with three-phase AC and he will throw a copy of Kreyszig at ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2014 - 10:31am - 0 attachments

... lever amplifies the force, or effort to lift a load . A transistor is an electronic version of a lever. ( Source ) It can take the small amount of current or voltage and amplify it. A transistor is a little more complicated than a diode so it might be simpler ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Apr 29 2014 - 8:13pm - 0 attachments

MH370 - Pieces Of The Puzzle Edit - please see new article - Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370? There has been a great amount of idle speculation and misinformation about the missing flight MH370 in the media and around the web ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2014 - 6:22pm - 0 attachments

... current calculations, a switched-off molybdenum disulfide transistor would consume even as little as several hundred thousand times less energy than a silicon transistor. Graphene, on the other hand, has no energy gap and transistors made ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2014 - 12:52pm - 0 attachments

In my previous article DC Versus AC I discussed how a diode can be used as a rectifier to convert alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC) because the diode allows current to flow in one direction, but not the other. The diode is the simp ...

Blog Post - Steve Schuler - Feb 27 2014 - 11:41am - 0 attachments

... These three circuits are usually based on the two-transistor Light Sensitive Tone Generator from The Forrest Mims Circuit ... Light striking the instrument’s photocell activates a transistor which energizes an audible buzzer signal. The tones of the signal ...

Article - Steve Schuler - Jan 10 2014 - 4:04pm - 0 attachments