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 an 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.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- April 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985STIN...8611415S
- Keywords:
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- Atomic Structure;
- Electric Arcs;
- Electric Corona;
- Electron Emission;
- Electron Mobility;
- Gases;
- Ionization;
- Kinetic Theory;
- Breakdown;
- Dielectrics;
- Electrical Engineering;
- Electrical Faults;
- Glow Discharges;
- High Voltages;
- Textbooks;
- Electronics and Electrical Engineering