Analysis of charge/discharge processes for the basic ESD models

Author

Greason, William D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Western Ontario Univ., London, Ont., Canada

fYear

1992

fDate

4-9 Oct 1992

Firstpage

1590

Abstract

The human body model (HBM), charged device model and field induced model have been developed to simulate the electrostatic discharge (ESD) event. The author develops system equations to characterize these basic ESD models. The charge/discharge processes for the models are analyzed, using Maxwell´s technique and a sphere model. Body potentials, energies and the charge transfer during a discharge are calculated as a function of the charge on the source conductor and the capacitance coefficients for the conductors used. Approximate solutions for the HBM are proposed. Measurements made with a system of conductors and a ground plane are used to determine the accuracy of these solutions

Keywords

capacitance; electrostatic discharge; ESD models; Maxwell´s technique; capacitance coefficients; charge processes; charge transfer; charged device model; conductors; discharge processes; electrostatic discharge; field induced model; ground plane; human body model; source conductor; sphere model; Biological system modeling; Capacitance; Conductors; Discrete event simulation; Electrostatic discharge; Electrostatic measurements; Fault location; Geometry; Humans; Maxwell equations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting, 1992., Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0635-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IAS.1992.244373

Filename

244373