[Leica] RESEND - RE DIGILUX - was Tina and her Computer....

[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

I used - years ago - to work on the properties of GaAs.

As far as I can recall sitting here thinking about it, GaAs might be more 
resistant than Si - wider band gap - but not impervious. Basically putting a 
huge bolt of energy into any semiconductor/semi-insulator will cause a surge 
of 
current, whose properties may or may not be ameliorated by device in which 
it 
sits; but totally resistant, no.

But basically Len, if you're that close I wouldn't worry about the Digilux! 
:-)

Peter

PS Oh, and I wouldn't hold out a great deal of hope for your memory card 
either.

Leonard J Kapner wrote:

 > This is another aspect of electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) phenomenon. Someone
 > wrote a science-fiction book about it a decade or so ago. Nuclear weapon 
 > air
 > bursts at strategic locations knocked out all unhardened defense and
 > communication sites, rendering us suddenly deaf, dumb and blind and unable
 > to operate our vehicles. Not to mention dead, too... I understand that
 > gallium arsenide circuits are resistant to EMP rendering them inoperable;
 > not so with conventional silicon.
 >
 > I wonder if the CPU in my Digilux 2 is made of gallium arsenide?
 >
 > Len
 >