An Introduction to Electrical Breakdown in Dielectrics

Abstract

This report was written to serve as a text for an introductory graduate course in high voltage engineering at the Air Force Institute of Technology. However, anyone with and undergraduate electrical engineering or physics degree should be able to understand it, if they so desire. The material presented falls into three sections. The first part discusses the basics of kinetic theory of gases, atomic structure, ionization, mobility, diffusion, and electron emission. The second portion covers gas breakdown and the characteristics of the glow, corona, and arc discharges. the final portion provides a very brief introduction to the literature are provided.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA156465

Entities

People

  • T. L. Skvarenina

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Band Theory Of Solids
  • Chemistry
  • Dielectric Properties
  • Dielectrics
  • Electric Discharges
  • Electric Fields
  • Electromagnetic Fields
  • Electron Emission
  • Electron Energy
  • Energy Bands
  • Energy Storage
  • Ionization
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Science
  • Nuclear Weapons
  • Solid State Physics
  • Space Charge

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  • Microelectronics