Hi there, and welcome to Part 4 of this ever-growing mega-mini-series. In Part 1, we discussed the first vacuum tube diodes, moved on to their solid-state (semiconductor) descendants, and then ...

If you’re like us, you’ve never spent a second thinking about what happens when you dunk an ordinary LED into liquid nitrogen. That’s too bad because as it turns out, the results are pretty ...

Hi there, and welcome to Part 5 of this originally-planned-to-be-a-3-part trilogy. Actually, I don’t feel too bad, because there ended up being eleven novels in the legendary Brentford Trilogy by ...