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How does a transistor switch signals so fast?

Transistors are tiny components that can turn electrical signals on and off at incredible speeds. In this video, you'll learn ...
ExtremeTech

What Is a Transistor, and How Does It Work?

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Ars Technica

Electronics people: simple drive spin-up transistor switch, with ~0.5s timer

OK, so I have an old project laptop with an IDE/PATA/slim-ATAPI optical drive bay, into which I have inserted a SATA drive caddy with a bridge board. The thing is, the caddy doesn't transfer the drive ...
EDN

Digital Electronics Course – Part 5: Logic gates

A logic gate is an electronic component (or set of them) that performs a logic operation, in which the binary values 0 and 1 are represented with two different voltage values, as seen in the previous ...
C&EN

The future of electronics: How small can we go?

Deboki Chakravarti: You’ve probably seen pictures of those old computers. Not like the bulky ones that Sam and I used when we were younger. I’m talking about computers like the Electrical Numerical ...