I thought an EMP of a significant power “melts” or fries or crumps mico-circuits, rendering them non-functional.
“I thought an EMP of a significant power “melts” or fries or crumps mico-circuits, rendering them non-functional.”
That’s a pretty accurate description of the semiconductor failure mode. Radiated energy from an emp couples to conductors. If it’s enough energy and it gets to a semiconductor junction, it will arc across it-killing it. It can take as little as 1v to 10v depending on the semiconductor technology to burn it out.
“I thought an EMP of a significant power “melts” or fries or crumps mico-circuits, rendering them non-functional.”
Yes, physical damage aside, which obviously stops the flow of electricity, the poster was claiming EMP stops electricity. It doesn’t. I’ve read that assertion before, that EMP causes electricity to stop flowing because it stays around an does that, as though EMP is some kind of electricity gobbling monster.