Should You Tackle Electrical Projects or Hire a Professional? These Tools Can Help You Decide.

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IEEE

Test Scheme and Degradation Model of Accumulated Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Damage for Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) Prognostics

Abstract: This paper develops a degradation test scheme for insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) that are subjected to repeated electrostatic discharge (ESD). The proposed 7-step scheme is ...
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Korean researchers’ single memristor replaces both the driving transistor and storage capacitor in micro-LED

Could a single memristor replace both the driving transistor and storage capacitor in micro-LEDs? Prof. Tae-Geun Kim and team ...
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Safely Test AC Electronics with a Dim Bulb Current Limiter

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I ...
Hackaday

2025 Component Abuse Challenge: The Ever-Versatile Transistor As A Temperature Sensor

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 ...
EDN

A current mirror reduces Early effect

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

HBM Leads The Way To Defect-Free Bumps

Leading HBM device makers and foundries must simultaneously handle multi-layer chip stacking, die warpage, and shorter ...
Electronic Specifier

New Littelfuse TMR switches deliver ultra-low power magnetic sensing

Littelfuse, Inc. a diversified, announced the launch of two next-generation Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) magnetic ...