Speakers - 2026

Title: Nano Reliability Models

Abstract

The phrase "f sky is the limit  with nanotechnology " suggests its immense and limitless potential across many fields, from medicine and electronics to materials science and energy.  Yet the laws of nature are valid in the nanometric domain too. This paper ivestigates the limitations imposed by these laws at the nanometric level on the reliability of nanome. Material defects caused by the movement of particles , or collisions between them at a molecular level are investigated. These collisions are characteristic to all materials.Their mathematical expression are random walks. Einstein associated Brownian motions with the second law of hermodynamics.Brownian motion has been shown to cause a Wiener process degradation. This paper introduces other types of random walks as mechanism for the prevailing degradation models, which till now were proved empirically. The failure mechanisms described herein are a Physics of failure approach. Yet it validates some of the basics of Reliability Standards (e.g. the existence of constant failure rates, the Arrhenius model).