Aging and DC breakdown characteristics of insulating stearic acid films

Author

Agarwal, Vijendra ; Hagen, Scott

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys., Moorhead State Univ., MN, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

7-10 Jun 1992

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

86

Abstract

The authors report the results of studies on stearic acid films deposited by thermal evaporation in vacuum, which is commonly used in industry. The studies included the examination of the effects of aging stearic acid films in a humid environment and under vacuum. Electrical breakdown characteristics of capacitors with a stearic acid dielectric were measured under ambient conditions. Capacitors aged in vacuum were tested in situ as well. The preliminary results indicate that there was no significant change in breakdown fields for specimens aged for about 200 h

Keywords

ageing; capacitors; electric breakdown of solids; electron device testing; insulating thin films; insulation testing; organic insulating materials; vacuum deposited coatings; 200 hours; DC breakdown characteristics; ageing; breakdown fields; capacitors; film deposition; humid environment; insulating stearic acid films; stearic acid dielectric; testing; thermal evaporation in vacuum; Aging; Capacitors; Dielectric breakdown; Dielectric films; Electric breakdown; Insulation; Physics; Semiconductor films; Sputtering; Substrates;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Insulation, Conference Record of the 1992 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1089-084X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0649-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ELINSL.1992.247046

Filename

247046