You can work with a part for many decades, and still learn something new about it. At least we can, and we don’t mind ...

Anyone who works with older electronic equipment will before long learn to spot Rifa capacitors, a distinctive yellow-translucent component often used in mains filters, that is notorious for failures.

Breakthrough could – eventually – impact smartphone and mobile computing A new approach to materials engineering promises to overcome the limitation of capacitors commonly used in smartphones, ...