Electrostatic Discharge too small to be felt or seen is enough to destroy or cause costly, latent malfunctions in many of today's components. ESD is a leading cause of lost productivity and profits. Leica Microsystems eliminates this problem: the surfaces of Leica stereomicroscopes have a resistivity below 1011 ohm/square. The build-up of static is stopped, and existing static charges are cut from 1000V to 100V in less than two seconds. Leica’s patented ESD protection saves you money.