Hi folks! Hope all is well! I was just reading an article about cosmic rays.
The article said "Cosmic rays have sufficient energy to alter the states of circuit components in electronic integrated circuits, causing transient errors to occur, such as corrupted data in electronic memory devices, or incorrect performance of CPUs, often referred to as "soft errors" (not to be confused with software errors caused by programming mistakes/bugs). This has been a problem in electronics at extremely high-altitude, such as in satellites, but with transistors becoming smaller and smaller, this is becoming an increasing concern in ground-level electronics as well."
Can some one please let me know why smaller transistors have a higher probability of being affected by cosmic waves? Why would the size of a transistor matter?
Thanks for the replies!
The article said "Cosmic rays have sufficient energy to alter the states of circuit components in electronic integrated circuits, causing transient errors to occur, such as corrupted data in electronic memory devices, or incorrect performance of CPUs, often referred to as "soft errors" (not to be confused with software errors caused by programming mistakes/bugs). This has been a problem in electronics at extremely high-altitude, such as in satellites, but with transistors becoming smaller and smaller, this is becoming an increasing concern in ground-level electronics as well."
Can some one please let me know why smaller transistors have a higher probability of being affected by cosmic waves? Why would the size of a transistor matter?
Thanks for the replies!