In electronics, electrical breakdown or dielectric breakdown is a process that occurs when an electrically insulating material (a dielectric), subjected...
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The breakdown voltage of an insulator is the minimum voltage that causes a portion of an insulator to experience electrical breakdown and become electrically...
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Insulator (electricity) (redirect from Electrical insulators)
away from the atoms. This is known as electrical breakdown, and the voltage at which it occurs is called the breakdown voltage of an insulator. Some materials...
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Dielectric strength (section Electrical breakdown)
withstand under ideal conditions without undergoing electrical breakdown and becoming electrically conductive (i.e. without failure of its insulating properties)...
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Paschen's law (redirect from Paschen breakdown voltage)
Machine Paschen's law calculator Breakdown Voltage vs. Pressure Electrical Breakdown of Low Pressure Gases Electrical Discharges Pressure Dependence of...
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In electrical engineering, treeing is an electrical pre-breakdown phenomenon in solid insulation. It is a damaging process due to partial discharges and...
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Electric arc (redirect from Electrical arc)
An electric arc (or arc discharge) is an electrical breakdown of a gas that produces a prolonged electrical discharge. The current through a normally nonconductive...
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Avalanche breakdown (or the avalanche effect) is a phenomenon that can occur in both insulating and semiconducting materials. It is a form of electric...
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Electricity (redirect from Electrical)
strength that may be withstood by any medium. Beyond this point, electrical breakdown occurs and an electric arc causes flashover between the charged parts...
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Lichtenberg figure (category Electrical breakdown)
now known to occur on or within solids, liquids, and gases during electrical breakdown. Lichtenberg figures are natural phenomena which exhibit fractal...
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Transformer oil (redirect from Electrical oil)
is introduced. This helps prevent corona formation and subsequent electrical breakdown under load. Oil filled transformers with a conservator oil reservoir...
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Comparative Tracking Index (category Electrical breakdown)
is used to measure the electrical breakdown (tracking) properties of an insulating material. Tracking is an electrical breakdown on the surface of an insulating...
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Electric spark (redirect from Electrical spark)
cause regions of the air in the gap to become electrically conductive in a process called dielectric breakdown. Once the gap breaks down, current flow is...
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Zener effect (redirect from Zener breakdown)
most notably in the appropriately named Zener diode) is a type of electrical breakdown, discovered by Clarence Melvin Zener. It occurs in a reverse biased...
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Spark gap (category Electrical breakdown)
conductors exceeds the breakdown voltage of the gas within the gap, a spark forms, ionizing the gas and drastically reducing its electrical resistance. An electric...
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Electrostatic discharge (category Electrical breakdown)
temporarily causing the air to abruptly become an electrical conductor in a process called dielectric breakdown. Perhaps the best known example of a natural...
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Charged-device model (category Electrical breakdown)
The charged-device model (CDM) is a model for characterizing the susceptibility of an electronic device to damage from electrostatic discharge (ESD). The...
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attraction (e.g., static cling), repulsion, and sparks. Sparks — Electrical breakdown of a medium that produces an ongoing plasma discharge, similar to...
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Partial discharge (category Electrical breakdown)
In electrical engineering, partial discharge (PD) is a localized dielectric breakdown (DB) (which does not completely bridge the space between the two...
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Tesla coil (category Electrical breakdown)
space: A bus bar". The Electrical World. Vol. 32, no. 19. Other publications Cullen, A. L.; Dobson, J. (1963). "The Corona Breakdown of Aerials in Air at...
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Dielectric breakdown model (DBM) is a macroscopic mathematical model combining the diffusion-limited aggregation model with electric field. It was developed...
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Kirlian photography (redirect from Electrical photography)
collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. It is named after Soviet scientist Semyon Kirlian...
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Corona discharge (category Electrical breakdown)
represents a local region where the air (or other fluid) has undergone electrical breakdown and become conductive, allowing charge to continuously leak off the...
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Townsend (unit) (category Electrical breakdown)
The townsend (symbol Td) is a physical unit of the reduced electric field (ratio E/N), where E {\displaystyle E} is electric field and N {\displaystyle...
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High voltage (category Electrical safety)
objects are not normally conductive, very high voltage can cause the electrical breakdown of such insulators, causing them to act as conductors. These transferred...
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Snapback is a mechanism in a bipolar transistor in which avalanche breakdown or impact ionization provides a sufficient base current to turn on the transistor...
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Upper-atmospheric lightning (category Electrical phenomena)
sometimes used by researchers to refer to a family of short-lived electrical-breakdown phenomena that occur well above the altitudes of normal lightning...
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Electric discharge (redirect from Electrical discharge)
discharge St. Elmo's fire Lightning Electric organ Debye sheath Electrical breakdown Electric discharge in gases Lichtenberg figure Space charge American...
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gate oxide breakdown. As a measure of oxide quality, QBD can also be a useful predictor of product reliability under specified electrical stress conditions...
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