Transfer impedance and effectiveness of SMA receptacle for wideband measurement of discharge current due to human ESD

In order to investigate the effectiveness of an SMA receptacle as wideband measurement electrode for human ESD, we derived the transfer impedance of a 50-Ω SMA receptacle, and measured its frequency characteristics from 300 kHz to 20 GHz. With a 12-GHz digital oscilloscope, measurement of discharge currents through a hand-held metal bar from a charged human was made, and thereby the injected currents on the SMA receptacle were reconstructed from the measured transfer impedance. The results show that at a charge voltage of 1500 V the reconstructed current waveform agrees well with the observed voltage waveform divided by 50 Ω.