Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But one ...

Innovative power recycling technique could revolutionize electronics. As electronic devices become smaller and more powerful, managing their energy consumption is crucial for extending battery life, ...

image: These are two photos of flexible circuits created using carbon nanotubes in research at Purdue University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The researchers have overcome a ...

Any robot that moves needs actuators—motors that move parts of the robot around. While robot actuators have been around since the dawn of machines, they have some issues. For one, it is very difficult ...

Researchers have overcome a major obstacle in producing transistors from networks of carbon nanotubes, a technology that could make it possible to print circuits on plastic sheets for applications ...