It's a widely known problem with roots in urban legend: Devices with motherboards failing in the early 2000s with a sudden ...

[Tahmid Mahbub] was measuring an electrolytic capacitor with an LCR and noticed it measuring 19 uF despite the device being rated at 470 uF. This was because such parts are usually specified at ...

Don’t be so hasty. Those power supplies and analog circuits often have a number of old aluminium electrolytic capacitors of unknown condition, and bad things can happen if they suddenly get ...

UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally left out overnight. The layered sample consisted of a germanium wafer ...

Curiosity about a mistake that left tiny dots on a germanium wafer with evaporated metal films led to the discovery of ...

MALVERN, PA — Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) has announced the expansion of its 299 PHL-4TSI series of snap-in, ...

Leaky capacitors (and leaky batteries) have killed many ancient computers over the years. In the case of the former, electrolytic fluid can seep out and wreak havoc on circuit boards and nearby ...