Effect of applied stress and temperature on the conductivity of polystyrene

The object of this paper is to report recent measurements of the conductivity of polystyrene film under relatively high electric fields, and to describe a field effect on the conductivity of that material. Although the existence of a field effect on the conductivity of crystalline materials such as mica was reported by Poole (1), no such data has appeared for amorphous materials such as polystyrene.