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minus-squareMidnitte@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·7 months ago By Daniel Oberhaus October 30, 2018, 5:20pm 🤨 Yet both Android and Apple phones use MEMS silicon for their devices, so why were only Apple phones affected? Glad I’ve got an Android since I could potentially work with liquid Hydrogen…
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·7 months ago Hydrogen This says that hydrogen isn’t just a problem, just helium: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/669763/why-is-a-mems-device-affected-by-helium-but-not-hydrogen It seems that MEMS is very sensitive to helium, but only helium. This Link stated that hydrogen does not affect MEMS, which surprised me.
minus-squareIrritableOcelot@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoCan’t speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it’s in there.
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Glad I’ve got an Android since I could potentially work with liquid Hydrogen…
This says that hydrogen isn’t just a problem, just helium:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/669763/why-is-a-mems-device-affected-by-helium-but-not-hydrogen
Oh derp
Can’t speak for MEMS specifically, but it absolutely can make chips shut down whole instruments by changing their properties. It intercalates slower, but has much the same effect once it’s in there.