Timothy J. Maloney was a Senior Principal Engineer at Intel before retirement in June of 2016. He received the Intel Achievement Award for his patented ESD protection devices, which have achieved breakthrough ESD performance enhancements for a wide variety of Intel products. He is co-author of a book, “Basic ESD and I/O Design” (Wiley, 1998), and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Heat flow analysis for semiconductor ESD situations can be approximated to one dimension, and then captured with a generalized Ohm’s Law using a complex impedance. Methods can include time-dependent electrothermal pulses and feedback due to self-heating, with solutions readily carried out on any desktop computer.