Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount...

22 Jun 2004

...
   (I suspect)
much of a valve's rad-hardening is due to sheer size,  
 It is. 
I am not convinced. I remember reading that the tiny field-emission 
vavles etched into a silicon chip (which, BTW, are smaller than the mean 
free path of an electron in air at stmospheric pressure so they don't 
need to be evacuated) are considerably more radiation hard than 
conventional transistors on the same chip.

-tony

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Modern Electronics (was Re: List charter mods & headcount...