It used to be a rite of passage to be able to do the math necessary to design various bipolar transistor amplifier ...

When I joined Machine Design three years ago, my No.1 goal was to expand my knowledge of engineering best practices and its relationship to the manufacturing industry. To be successful, I would need ...

As a service to our readers, we're providing the LTspice files used in Dr. Dyer's article on simulation of the 12AX7 and the K2-W vacuum-tube op amp. 1. The model for the K2-W is established as a ...

Controlling light is an important technological challenge—not just at the large scale of optics in microscopes and telescopes ...

Researchers at Princeton and North Carolina State University have developed a technique that substantially improves the ...

Traditionally, power converter design for energy storage systems (BESS) normally focuses on conversion efficiency and total ...