{"id":235545,"date":"2026-04-20T06:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-model-explains-how-single-electrons-cause-damage-inside-silicon-chips"},"modified":"2026-04-20T06:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:07:16","slug":"quantum-model-explains-how-single-electrons-cause-damage-inside-silicon-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/quantum-model-explains-how-single-electrons-cause-damage-inside-silicon-chips","title":{"rendered":"Quantum model explains how single electrons cause damage inside silicon chips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-model-explains-how-single-electrons-cause-damage-inside-silicon-chips2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bonds inside microelectronic devices\u2014a detrimental process that slowly degrades performance over time. The discovery, published as an Editors\u2019 Suggestion in Physical Review B, explains decades-old experimental puzzles and moves scientists closer to engineering more reliable devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in the UC Santa Barbara Materials Department have uncovered the elusive quantum mechanism by which energetic electrons break chemical bonds inside microelectronic devices\u2014a detrimental process that slowly degrades performance over time. The discovery, published as an Editors\u2019 Suggestion in Physical Review B, explains decades-old experimental puzzles and moves scientists closer to engineering more reliable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}