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Treasures from the Year of Light
Lighting has come a long way, from flint stones and firewood to fluorescent lamps and now light emitting diodes (LEDs). Today, we continue to...
Make A Low-cost CFL Lamp Driver
With advances in lighting industry, small and cost-effective compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) have revolutionized energy-efficient lighting. Designed to replace the less efficient incandescent lamps,...
American Carrier Strike Groups: An Electronic Perspective (Part 2 of 5)
The first part of this article covered defensive combat operations, air defence warfare, fighter aircraft and AEW aircraft combo (phase I), and air search...
Precision-Guided Munitions: Radar-Guided Weapons (Part 4 of 4)
Radar guidance like infrared (IR) homing guidance is predominantly used in surface-to-air and air-to-air guided weapons. While IR homing guidance is largely employed in...
An Architectural Upgrade Cuts GPU Power Draw By Half
The Apollo 11 conspiracy, which claimed that the landing on the Moon by astronauts was a hoax, had been doing the rounds for a...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Modern Sensors
Various types of sensors are encountered everywhere by us every day. Modern sensors need not be new types of sensors based on new technologies,...
Test and Measurement Tools for LED Lighting
In the arena of light emitting diode (LED) test and measurement (T&M), manufacturers are creating many modular T&M devices, which allow for a swift...
Smart Engineering, Driven By Consumer Needs
Smartphones, laptops and tablets have now become integral parts of our lives. This has influenced the engineering community too. We are noticing engineers aggregating...
Physics Nobel Prize 2014 for LEDs as Future Lighting Devices
According to Nobel committee citation, this year’s Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded to Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, Nagoya University, Japan, and...
Automobiles: Packed With Electronics, From Boot to Bonnet
Electronics is being used in vehicles for safety and security, infotainment, networking, power train and engine management, and more. Rapid advancements in sensor technology,...