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Re: ESD & High voltage causing IC damage
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 6/10/2005

There are strong technical arguments on both sides of this issue.

ESD is not the correct term, as the electrical field was not static, nor was there a single discharge of a stored charge, which creates high currents and a strong electro-magnetic pulse.

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