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| coppercone2:
What is the most sensitive circuit element that you can think of in terms of being able to handle some kind of power ? I know bare signal FETs are very sensitive to ESD, but I mean in a properly hooked up system that has a generator of some sort connected to it giving it a steady state signal that slowly rises. |
| Alex Eisenhut:
Not sure exactly what you're driving at here but mixer/sampling diodes are pretty easy to blow. |
| T3sl4co1l:
Easy: a transistor, in the smallest possible feature size (a few nm across?), in the lowest melting point semiconductor that's still capable of transisting at room temperature say. I wonder what the ratings of superconducting elements are (Josephson junctions and whatnot)? Tim |
| coppercone2:
what manufactured commercially used device comes closest? like, a component with a input, not something buried inside of a CPU thats inaccessible by any reasonable means. is there some notorious transistor family etc? |
| Gyro:
This is a ridiculous question without knowing what circuit the element is used in. Sensitive parts may well be well protected by surrounding components (even resistor choices). In a properly designed circuit any part may fail before the 'most sensitive' one. It's impossible to say without any context! EDIT: --- Quote from: coppercone2 on November 26, 2019, 04:01:06 am ---I know bare signal FETs are very sensitive to ESD, but I mean in a properly hooked up system that has a generator of some sort connected to it giving it a steady state signal that slowly rises. --- End quote --- |
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