Problem with handling silicon wafers

[JubilationTCornpone]

I have an application wherein a robot needs to pick a silicon wafer off of a stack. The stack consists of wafers interleaved with sheets of separator paper.

Unfortunately, the silicon wafers have a way of sticking to the interleaf sheets, and to each other. This appears to be due to static electricity. The static fades away after a few seconds, but it does impact our cycle times.

Would you happen to know of any consultants that I can discuss this problem with? Any leads would be appreciated.

 

[JayMaechtlen]

I believe EXAIR (air knives, etc) talks about ion charge (?) to kill static electricity - maybe a steady flow to kill the static?