I was installing a hard drive today and it works fine, but as it's the first time I've done it I did a little reading and found out that electrostatic charge can damage your drive not only if you ...

Many people don’t realize that creating a safe electrostatic discharge workstation can enhance a worker’s productivity and reduce costs associated with damaged equipment. This guide covers all the ...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is caused by the discharge of an excess or deficiency of electrons on one surface with respect to another surface or to ground. When a static charge is present on an ...

Standards for specifying a chip’s ability to withstand electrostatic discharge (ESD) are changing – in some cases, getting tougher, and in others, easing up. ESD protection has been on a path from a ...

An electronic device is susceptible to Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) damage during its entire life cycle, including the phase from the completion of the silicon wafer processing to when the device ...

I once worked for a company that made guitar amplifiers, where I and another engineer designed DSP-based boards for reverb, delay, flange, and chorus effects. We were given the challenge of designing ...

ICP Building Solutions Group (BSG) has launched its newest product from APF Polymer Surfaces, Stat-Rez ESD Nano, which offers innovative solutions to control static and improve safety. Stat-Rez Static ...

We all have hands on experience with electrostatic discharge (ESD), even if it’s just from walking across a carpet and touching something metal, releasing static electricity buildup in one brief ...

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is indeed the "invisible foe" of electronic product quality and reliability. ESD includes spectacular electric sparks, but also less dramatic forms which may be neither ...