Electronics that can't be easily dismantled for recycling aren't very eco-friendly, nor are petroleum-based adhesives.

Getting started with Arduino can feel quite overwhelming at first because you're faced with the decision of what board to buy ...

Vacuum conditions, radiation, and electrical interference can compromise performance, requiring material and design strategies to safeguard electronics.

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

A multilayered semiconductor acting as an optical sensor opens the way to miniaturized, adjunct spectrometers.

Single-phase power factor correction (PFC) circuits—a kind of front-end AC/DC converters—are ubiquitous in a variety of ...

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

Patients are being warned to stop using some glucose monitors made by Abbott Diabetes Care after the company found malfunctioning sensors may be linked to hundreds of adverse events and several deaths ...

Optical sensors are a broad class of device for detecting light intensity. This can be just a simple component for notifying when ambient light levels rise above or fall below a prescribed level, or a ...

Synthesis of nanostructured cubic phase SnO 2 thin film and its trace-level sensing of CO gas This study presents a cubic phase SnO 2 thin film gas sensor with ultra-high CO sensitivity and 1 ppb ...

Minimal sun protection required for normal activity. Wear sunglasses on bright days. If outside for more than one hour, cover up and use sunscreen. Reflection off snow can nearly double UV strength, ...

Minimal sun protection required for normal activity. Wear sunglasses on bright days. If outside for more than one hour, cover up and use sunscreen. Reflection off snow can nearly double UV strength, ...