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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 24, 1986
Applicant:
Inventor:
Hsing C Tuan, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ; H01L / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
357 2313 ; 357-2 ; 357-4 ; 357 231 ; 357 237 ; 357 45 ; 357 51 ;
Abstract
An electrostatic discharge protection network for large area transducer arrays in which each transducer has associated therewith an addressing circuit for changing the state of the transducer element. Each addressing circuit includes at least one thin film transistor having a resistive path provided between the thin film transistor gate electrode and one or both of the transistor's other two terminal electrodes in order to provide current leakage paths for equalizing the potential between the gate electrode and the other two terminals during electrostatic discharge.