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From: fwb@demon.siemens.com (Frederic W. Brehm)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: New subject: Tesla vs gauss, and other obscure units
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Date: 2 Nov 89 17:08:08 GMT
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>In the microelectronics world, thinking in terms of femtofarads is 
>fairly commonplace.  For example, in calculations of gate-source capacitances
>for a minimum feature size MOS device. .

The microelectronics world does not use SI units everywhere, however.  It
is commonplace to put (ignore the magnitudes, look at the mish-mash of
units) a 5000 Angstrom thick 1 micron wide line on a 2000 square mil die on
a 4 inch diameter wafer!  This is changing, though.

Fred
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Frederic W. Brehm	Siemens Corporate Research	Princeton, NJ
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