Timeline for Will microwaving a flash drive destroy the data on it?
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| S Nov 28, 2014 at 18:51 | history | edited | Giacomo1968 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 22, 2013 at 8:06 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 9, 2012 at 12:49 | history | edited | Tamara Wijsman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2012 at 12:16 | comment | added | Joanis | OK, that was a messy explanation, but I hope you get the idea. When you have a huge (for the small material) forced release of electrons, you get some impressive electrical current going on and afterwards notice the damages on the material (memory doesn't work anymore because everything burned/melted inside). | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 12:13 | comment | added | Joanis | It has to do with electromagnetic (EM) waves effects on electrons. The EM waves make the electrons move according to its current polarity at any given place and time. When you have a spiky shape (like a wire, like logical gates), and that an EM wave affects its content of electrons, you can safely assume that, depending on the orientation of the waves (and probably many other things), at some point the wave will push a lot too many electron on the spike surface for it to be able to hold them all. At that point you have a jump of electrons from the spike to anything it can reach. | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2012 at 11:59 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2012 at 11:53 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2012 at 11:10 | comment | added | Psycogeek | No, but I am thinking that is a pretty good follow-up question to the original. How do the electromagnetic waves turn into electrical arcs when meeting up with a metallic surfaces (like the surfaces of the gates). umm ??? because they are lots of energy to begin with??? | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 10:51 | comment | added | James Womack | Do you know the mechanism by which the gates in a flash chip are destroyed? | |
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| Dec 31, 2011 at 13:03 | history | edited | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 31, 2011 at 10:35 | history | answered | Psycogeek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |