[SI-LIST] Re: IC package

  • From: steve weir <weirsp@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: a.ingraham@xxxxxxxx, <si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 19:42:20 -0700

Andy, what's a little excess leakage between friends?

Steve.
At 09:49 PM 8/17/2004 -0400, Andrew Ingraham wrote:
>Steve Weir wrote:
>
> > ...  I thought that virtually everyone who had two or more
> > semesters of physics knew this ...
>
>Yeah, they probably taught it.  But making the connection from classroom to
>practical applications isn't guaranteed.  Photoelectric effect is something
>you don't normally think devices do unless they were designed for it.  But
>it's not something you need to design into an IC.  I'll bet lots of
>engineers don't realize that, or don't remember it from their physics
>classes (having never encountered it).
>
>I learned my lesson about photoelectric effects in my first engineering job,
>when I added some protection diodes (in glass packages) to a circuit and saw
>funny stuff when the lights went on.
>
>Regards,
>Andy
>
>
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