Solve : Self Healing Chips - via redirection?

1.	Solve : Self Healing Chips - via redirection?
Answer» http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4089078/self-healing-chip-recovers-after-transistor-failure Saw this article late last night shared by a friend EmberIsolte and instantly thought about the movie Terminator ...LOL And this statement below has me concerned about increased Mercury Usage in computers beyond the current mercury in laptop and flat screen displays, what metals are liquid at room temp? Mercury is the only one that comes to mind to me unless they have come up with a Terminator like "Liquid Metal" ( with arnolds accent..lol ) Quote This isn't the first instance of self-healing ELECTRONICS that we've seen. In December, researchers at the UNIVERSITY of Illinois developed circuitry that COULD restore conductivity by releasing liquid metal onto the board *Curious as to how well this works with gravity. The pool of liquid metal unless surface tension whicks it to bridge a gap, I would expect it to pool depending on the chips orientation. Also curious as to the membrane that keeps the liquid metal BACK and the triggering mechanism that breaks this membrane to release the liquid metal to bridge an open circuit. Also the expansion ratio liquid metal vs chip body, if greater in the say Mercury than the chip body, I would expect the Mercury to fatigue the chip as it expands with micro fractures, when the chips heat up and contract when they cool, since after all Mercury has been great for its natural expansion/contraction properties via temperature measurement in thermometers. http://www.chic.caltech.edu/Publication05/Conferences/Bowers_RFIC_12.pdf http://paritynews.com/science/item/791-engineers-build-self-healing-chips-capable-of-repairing-themselves http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237608/Coming_soon_Self_healing_chips_for_smartphones_computers_ Regarding this in smartphones, I can see it now. Your on the phone with tech support and they tell you hold your phone a certain way.... sounds familiar with iPhone antenna issues.. now it affects all phones in that the phone is runing on its heal technology, but you now have to hold it off to the side so the mercury droplet bridges the gap in the open circuit...LOLThe references are not all for the same technology. I did not see any reference to the use of mercury is any amount. Quote Liquid metal From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Liquid metal consists of gallium-contained alloys with very low melting points. (Tetraamminelithium (Li(NH3)4) is a conductive GOLD bronze colored liquid, has a melting point of 89K, 150K below that of Mercury, and is classified as an expanded metal.) These low melting point alloys are liquid at room temperature.[1] The standard used to be mercury but gallium-based alloys are being used as a replacement in various applications. Mercury has a high vapor pressure at room temperature.[2] These alloys have reduced toxicity and a lower vapor pressure than mercury.

Answer» http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/11/4089078/self-healing-chip-recovers-after-transistor-failure
Saw this article late last night shared by a friend EmberIsolte and instantly thought about the movie Terminator ...LOL

And this statement below has me concerned about increased Mercury Usage in computers beyond the current mercury in laptop and flat screen displays, what metals are liquid at room temp? Mercury is the only one that comes to mind to me unless they have come up with a Terminator like "Liquid Metal" ( with arnolds accent..lol )

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This isn't the first instance of self-healing ELECTRONICS that we've seen. In December, researchers at the UNIVERSITY of Illinois developed circuitry that COULD restore conductivity by releasing liquid metal onto the board

*Curious as to how well this works with gravity. The pool of liquid metal unless surface tension whicks it to bridge a gap, I would expect it to pool depending on the chips orientation. Also curious as to the membrane that keeps the liquid metal BACK and the triggering mechanism that breaks this membrane to release the liquid metal to bridge an open circuit. Also the expansion ratio liquid metal vs chip body, if greater in the say Mercury than the chip body, I would expect the Mercury to fatigue the chip as it expands with micro fractures, when the chips heat up and contract when they cool, since after all Mercury has been great for its natural expansion/contraction properties via temperature measurement in thermometers.

http://www.chic.caltech.edu/Publication05/Conferences/Bowers_RFIC_12.pdf

http://paritynews.com/science/item/791-engineers-build-self-healing-chips-capable-of-repairing-themselves

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9237608/Coming_soon_Self_healing_chips_for_smartphones_computers_

Regarding this in smartphones, I can see it now. Your on the phone with tech support and they tell you hold your phone a certain way.... sounds familiar with iPhone antenna issues.. now it affects all phones in that the phone is runing on its heal technology, but you now have to hold it off to the side so the mercury droplet bridges the gap in the open circuit...LOLThe references are not all for the same technology.
I did not see any reference to the use of mercury is any amount.

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Liquid metal
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Liquid metal consists of gallium-contained alloys with very low melting points. (Tetraamminelithium (Li(NH3)4) is a conductive GOLD bronze colored liquid, has a melting point of 89K, 150K below that of Mercury, and is classified as an expanded metal.) These low melting point alloys are liquid at room temperature.[1] The standard used to be mercury but gallium-based alloys are being used as a replacement in various applications. Mercury has a high vapor pressure at room temperature.[2] These alloys have reduced toxicity and a lower vapor pressure than mercury.

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