[PSES] Damaging electronic components from across the room!

[Doug Smith]

Hi All, I have just posted my latest Technical Tidbit for May-June. The postings for May and June are combined because of the time overhead of moving from Los Gatos, CA to Boulder City, NV. Technical Tidbit - May-June 2012 Destroying Electronic Components from Across the Room With ESD (Today's sensitive components are really sensitive!) This month's Technical Tidbit describes how modern sensitive components can be damaged by an ESD event several meters away! Abstract: Electronic components are getting smaller and more sensitive every day, and with this comes a greater possibility of damage from electrical stresses in the environment. Some devices are so sensitive, they can be destroyed by an ESD event across the room because the radiated fields from the ESD event generate enough current in wires to do this. Measurement of currents in a one meter cable from a remote, small ESD event are presented and related to device damage thresholds. The link to the article is: http://emcesd.com/tt2012/tt052212.htm or http://DesertLabRat.com/tt2012/tt052212.htm Yes, I have added a new domain name: http://DesertLabRat.com which currently points to my main website. Doug -- ------------------------------------------------------- ___ _ Doug Smith \ / ) P.O. Box 60941 ========= Boulder City, NV 89006-0941 _ / \ / \ _ TEL/FAX: 702-570-6108/570-6013 / /\ \ ] / /\ \ Mobile: 408-858-4528 | q-----( ) | o | Email: d...@dsmith.org \ _ / ] \ _ / Website: http://www.dsmith.org ------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <emc-p...@ieee.org> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieee-pses.org/emc-pstc.html Attachments are not permitted but the IEEE PSES Online Communities site at http://product-compliance.oc.ieee.org/ can be used for graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <emcp...@radiusnorth.net> Mike Cantwell <mcantw...@ieee.org> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <j.bac...@ieee.org> David Heald <dhe...@gmail.com>