The process of selecting, installing, and maintaining ESD-safe flooring is complex—a science, not an art. All the other important choices in static control at a facility, such as workstations, seating ...

The Industry Council on ESD Target Levels, since its inception in 2006, has strongly influenced the IC industry’s ESD qualification processes. The industry’s original ESD qualification requirements ...

Desco Europe distributor Inelco Hunter has announced the availability of a “No strings attached” Free ESD Static Control Survey and Report. The Report provides feedback on existing ESD Control ...

A new technical paper titled “Real-Time ESD Monitoring and Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing Environments With Silicon Chip of ESD Event Detection” was published by researchers at National Yang ...

» New advances in materials often improve performance or reliability, but these characteristics can sometimes run counter to the needs of people who must control electrostatic discharge (ESD) events.

Since the 1980s, static-protective packaging has been classified and tested by EIA-541-1988 and its predecessor, IS5A. This first effort to encompass all types of ESD-protective packaging classified ...