Comment by apoorvkumar
9 years ago
An alpha particle for instance is atleast an order of magnitude smaller than smallest transistor. The maximum damage it can do is effectively 1 bit.
9 years ago
An alpha particle for instance is atleast an order of magnitude smaller than smallest transistor. The maximum damage it can do is effectively 1 bit.
Alpha particle won't penetrate that far, it will be stopped at the building level, or at the enclosure. Piece of paper blocks it.
Beta and gamma are the ones that can do damage (not sure about beta), and gamma can pass through the entire chip, so it can hit multiple transistors, depends on the angle and the way they are located.
Actually these high energy particles tend to be order of size of proton or less - so make that 6 orders of magnitude smaller than smallest transistor.