Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena
Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena
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DOI:
10.1109/tdei.2006.1714949
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
3.1
通讯作者:
N. Bowler;I. J. Youngs;K. P. Lymer;S. Hussain
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作者:
N. Bowler;I. J. Youngs;K. P. Lymer;S. Hussain
The thickness and conductivity of a surface coating on filler particles in a composite material are critical parameters in controlling the frequency at which dielectric relaxation occurs. In this paper, experimental results are presented for composites formed from tungsten-coated glass microbubbles, embedded in a matrix of paraffin wax. The tungsten coating is of the order of 10 nm thick. There is an outer coating of alumina, a few nm thick, to prevent oxidation of the tungsten and to prevent the formation of conducting pathways in the composite. Dielectric relaxation is observed at around 10 GHz. A remarkable feature of the system is the way in which the relaxation frequency is shifted, by approximately six decades, from the calculated value for a similar composite formed with solid tungsten filler particles (≈ 10 Hz). This shift is attributed to the geometrical confinement of the conductor within a thin shell, and to the reduction in conductivity of the thin tungsten layer when compared with the conductivity of bulk tungsten.