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From: FC138001@ysub.ysu.edu (Phil Munro)
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Subject: Re: Transitor deterioration
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>On a related topic:  Will all transistors eventually become useless
>chunks of silicon  (or GaAs, or whatever) because of the extremely
>slow, but nonzero diffusion of n into p and p into n at room
>temperature?
>
  Will all glass windows eventually become useless blobs of glass
because of the liquid nature of glass?!!!  I really don't have a
quantitative answer to the question about Silicon, but the diffusion
of dopant atoms in Si is something which is known, and as long as the
temperature of the device is kept within specs, the mean time to
failure would be known.

  In addition to these ideas about glass and design specs, we might
want to note that EVERYTHING will melt down and be destroyed in the
firey judgement to come.  --Phil