TY - GEN
T1 - Effect of relative humidity and materials on triboelectric charging of USB cables
AU - Rezaei, Hossein
AU - Guan, Li
AU - Talebzadeh, Atieh
AU - Marathe, Shubhankar
AU - Wei, Pengyu
AU - Pommerenke, David
PY - 2017/10/20
Y1 - 2017/10/20
N2 - A USB cable can be triboelectrically charged by rubbing it against a piece of clothing, such as a sweater. If a charged cable is inserted into a connector, an ESD event can upset or damage attached equipment. To investigate charge levels and estimate the resulting voltages on a USB cable, a set of experiments has been performed in a climate chamber under five different environmental conditions. These experiments were conducted by rubbing 44 different cables against sweaters made of 100% cotton, 100% polyester, 50% wool/50% nylon, and 50% wool/50% acrylic. The resulting charge levels often reflected the material pairing, as expected from the triboelectric series. The maximum charge level reached -141 nC, or -7 kV, assuming a capacitance of 20 pF between the cable and ground.
AB - A USB cable can be triboelectrically charged by rubbing it against a piece of clothing, such as a sweater. If a charged cable is inserted into a connector, an ESD event can upset or damage attached equipment. To investigate charge levels and estimate the resulting voltages on a USB cable, a set of experiments has been performed in a climate chamber under five different environmental conditions. These experiments were conducted by rubbing 44 different cables against sweaters made of 100% cotton, 100% polyester, 50% wool/50% nylon, and 50% wool/50% acrylic. The resulting charge levels often reflected the material pairing, as expected from the triboelectric series. The maximum charge level reached -141 nC, or -7 kV, assuming a capacitance of 20 pF between the cable and ground.
KW - Electrostatic Charge
KW - Electrostatic discharge (ESD)
KW - environmental condition
KW - Relative Humidity (RH)
KW - Temperature
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85039164133&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ISEMC.2017.8077945
DO - 10.1109/ISEMC.2017.8077945
M3 - Conference paper
AN - SCOPUS:85039164133
T3 - IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
SP - 634
EP - 639
BT - 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal and Power Integrity, EMCSI 2017 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
T2 - 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal/Power Integrity
Y2 - 7 August 2017 through 11 August 2017
ER -