Ball Lightning Mystery Solved? Electrical Phenomenon Created in Lab

Current problems in ball lightning science

Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk ◽

10.3367/ufnr.0160.199004j.0095 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 160 (4) ◽

pp. 95 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Boris M. Smirnov

Keyword(s):

Ball Lightning

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Once again on the Gatchina discharge and ball lightning (comments on G.D. Shabanov's paper "On the possibility of making natural ball lightning using a new pulse discharge type in the laboratory" [Phys. Usp. 62 92 (2019); Usp. Fiz. Nauk 189 95 (2019)])

Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk ◽

10.3367/ufnr.2019.05.038621 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 190 (01) ◽

pp. 107-109

Author(s):

Mikhail L. Shmatov

Keyword(s):

Pulse Discharge ◽

Ball Lightning

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Detection and Characterization of an Electrical Failure Induced during Laser Ablation of Packages

ISTFA 2008: Conference Proceedings from the 34th International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis ◽

10.31399/asm.cp.istfa2008p0375 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

P. Schwindenhammer ◽

H. Murray ◽

P. Descamps ◽

P. Poirier

Keyword(s):

Laser Ablation ◽

Integrated Circuits ◽

Failure Analysis ◽

Ablation Process ◽

Thermally Induced ◽

Electrical Failure ◽

Electrical Phenomenon ◽

Semiconductor Packages ◽

Complex Semiconductor

Abstract Decapsulation of complex semiconductor packages for failure analysis is enhanced by laser ablation. If lasers are potentially dangerous for Integrated Circuits (IC) surface they also generate a thermal elevation of the package during the ablation process. During measurement of this temperature it was observed another and unexpected electrical phenomenon in the IC induced by laser. It is demonstrated that this new phenomenon is not thermally induced and occurs under certain ablation conditions.

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