Making an oscilloscope is relatively easy, while making a very fast oscilloscope is hard. There’s a trick that converts a mundane instrument into a very fast one, it’s been around since the 1950s, and ...

When checking and verifying capacitors, inductors, diodes, bipolar transistors, and cables, the gamut of test methods can range from those used to confirm a defective component to identifying the ...

In the first part of this series, we took a look at a “toy” negative-differential-resistance circuit made from two ordinary transistors. Although this circuit allows experimentation with ...

For clear display of: Single-shot Nuclear Events/Transistor Switching/Fast Diode Turn-on/Radio-Frequency Waveforms/Tunnel-Diode Switching—Now, you can see and record non-repetitive, high-speed ...