/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/leakage-currents-current-leaks---part-2Virtually all semiconductor devices have some amount of leakage current. It is interesting to note as operating voltages and device power consumption keep dropping, leakage current is becoming a larger percentage of a device’s power consumption. In men-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/members-area/personalblogs/b/blog/posts/leakage-currents-current-leaks---part-2Tue, 19 May 2015 18:34:37 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:ac75656d-c949-4fb2-8332-4e7d6fd8f2dfDAB0<p>Good post.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>One of the many issues that my new atomic model has exposed is the tendency of atoms to share photon flow from one to another based on really small differences in potential.</p><p>Some of the doping atoms for semiconductors greatly facilitate this charge movement at the atomic level.</p><p>Unless you have very good separation between Vcc and ground, you can create charge flow through many paths through your circuit.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I hope to do a better job of defining the exact nature of these charge flows, but for now, I think your discussions are a good way to get engineers aware of the subtleties of charge flow in circuits.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>DAB</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=20875&AppID=293&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">