{"id":511328,"date":"2018-08-21T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=b2e4fc8255cf7e487837f8f13622d1df"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:00:02","slug":"researchers-unravel-the-path-of-electrical-discharges-on-phenomenally-small-scales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=511328","title":{"rendered":"Researchers unravel the path of electrical discharges on phenomenally small scales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations in microscale electronics, medicine, combustion and scores of other technologies depend on understanding and predicting the behavior of electricity on the smallest of length scales. Scientists already have a good grasp of a phenomenon known as &#8220;electrical breakdown,&#8221; when electricity jumps across large gaps and creates plasma. However, researchers have had little insight into the behavior of electricity as it jumps across very small gaps\u2014only a few thousandths of a millimeter\u2014until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovations in microscale electronics, medicine, combustion and scores of other technologies depend on understanding and predicting the behavior of electricity on the smallest of length scales. Scientists already have a good grasp of a phenomenon known as &#8220;electrical breakdown,&#8221; when electricity jumps across large gaps and creates plasma. However, researchers have had little insight into the behavior of electricity as it jumps across very small gaps&mdash;only a few thousandths of a millimeter&mdash;until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511329,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511328\/revisions\/511329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}