Improvements for electrostatic discharge immunity in thermal printing head

1 Electrostatic Discharge

600 B.C. Thales of Miletus discovers electrostatic attraction. 1600 A.D. William Gilbert proposes the ‘‘electric fluid’’ model. 1620 A.D. Niccolo Cabeo discusses ‘‘attractive’’ and ‘‘repulsive’’ phenomena. 1729 A.D. Stephen Gray demonstrates ‘‘electricity’’ can be transferred by wires. 1733 A.D. Charles Francois du Fay discusses two kinds of electricity—‘‘resinous’’ and ‘‘vitreous.’’ 1749 A.D. ...

Electrostatic Discharge Effects in Thin Film Transistors

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An Investigation of Human Body Electrostatic Discharge

The electronics industry has recognized the significance of Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) as a potential source of damage, especially to semiconductor devices, for some time. During that time, there has been an ongoing effort to develop a meaningful human body ESD pulse and equipment which is capable of repeatedly applying that pulse at various voltage levels to a semiconductor device. The inte...

On-Chip Structure for Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) Protection [DIV]

Shortest Paths and Network Flow Algorithms for Electrostatic Discharge Analysis

Designers of integrated circuits have always been concerned about the damaging effects of ESD (Electrostatic Discharge). However, as their designs become increasingly more complex, the problem of analyzing the schemes they develop to protect against ESD is quickly becoming too difficult perform manually. Current VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) designs exceed one hundred bondpads, through wh...