Dielectric breakdown Definition and 18 Threads

The dielectric strength of air (ie the maximum electric field that the material can withstand under ideal conditions without undergoing electrical breakdown and becoming electrically conductive) is 3 000 kV ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric_strength#Break_down_field_strength ). In...

Hello, I am solving a dielectric materials assignment to derive the equation for the growth of current in a gap stressed with the high electric field. The equation is as follows: The equation combines the anode, cathode and attachment process as shown below: I have derived the two equations...

Hello, I am solving a dielectric materials assignment to derive the equation for the growth of current in a gap stressed with the high electric field. The equation is as follows: The equation combines the anode, cathode and attachment process as shown below: I have searched the following...

Homework Statement A coaxial transmission line consists of an inner cylindrical conductor of radius a = 1 mm and a cylindrical outer conductor chosen to make the characteristic impedance 75 ohm. The space between the conductors is lled with a gas which can stand a maximum eld of 105 V/m without...

I have a capacitor which I would like to know if the dielectric has undergone dielectric breakdown. Is there anyway I can tell without specialist equipment, is there physical damage to the material that I can see with the naked eye? The material is quartz. Thanks.

Consider this stack of materials: metal - dielectric - air - dielectric - metal Assume that air has a lower breakdown field than the dielectric. As the voltage (DC) on the metal electrodes increases the field inside the air gap increases and eventually reaches breakdown causing it to become...

I saw an experiment the other day, where a van de graaf generator charges up this big smooth chrome sphere. There is a "wand" with a much smaller sphere nearby that's grounded, and periodically a spark can be heard and seen when the big sphere dischrages to the wand, which corresponds to...

Homework Statement A capacitor is charged to V = 5 kV. A wire is then connected to one plate and is slowly connected to the other. Before actually touching the plate, a spark of length l = 1 cm shoots from the wire to the plate. Using this information, estimate the dielectric breakdown of air...

Say you had two needles sticking out of an insulator in an air-filled chamber covered by an aluminum foil cup. The needles are charged to a high enough electric field to cause dielectric breakdown of air. Will a spark go from needle to needle? Or will the needles cause an induced negative charge...

Dielectric break down... i understand that there is current passing through the insulator but why is this damaging to the insulator? please go as deep as you can. thankyou

Would a magnetic field have any effect on the dielectric breakdown of insulators? For example, the dielectric breakdown of air is 3 Mega volts per meter at a gap of one meter; if you applied a magnetic field to that breakdown, would it help guide the electrons along the path and therefore reduce...

What's the difference between Corona Discharge and Dielectric Breakdown? For me both stand for the same process, but wikipedia (as many other sites) says they are different. Actually they say corona discharge occurs when the electric gradient is high but not enough to create an electrical...

If a capacitor's dielectric partially breaks down, as in some of the material has ionized and acted as a conductor, will there still be a capacitance to the component? Say its a high frequency AC signal on a capacitor with a small part of its dielectric material in a breakdown state. My...

1. What plate area is required if an air-filled, parallel-plate capacitor with a plate separation of 2.3 mm is to have a capacitance of 24 pF? Which I found correctly to be 6.2 x 10^-3 m^2 by using the formula C= k(8.85x10^-12)A/d What is the maximum voltage that can be applied to this...

I have another question. Let us assume we have some dielectric oil and two electrodes (submerged into dielectric oil) connected to positive and negative of a voltage source. The system shall have some breakdown voltage , how can I calculate that? Any link available to get the formula...

Homework Statement A cavity can only store 1J of EM energy as it reaches dielectric breakdown at 3kV/mm. What dielectric strength would a new gas filling the cavity have if the energy stored was to be 4J. Homework Equations U=\frac{1}{2}(epsilon)E2The Attempt at a Solution I would use the...

Homework Statement Hello: I am asked to find the maximum voltage in a cylindrical capacitor. The capacitor consists of an inner wire and an outer cylindrical shell. The wire has radius r_{1} and the cylinder has inner radius r_{2}. The space between the wires is filled with a dielectric...

Are there any programs around which will do this? I initially thought of Sonnet, but after some thought, I began to doubt that it would model dielectric breakdown. Any ideas at all? I've searched the web, and I can find some electrical (spice) models for it, but nothing geometric. Thanks...