ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES

This thesis is an account of a detailed investigation of the properties of a recently-discovered gas discharge - a discharge that operates at a few volts or tens of volts, and which carries a current of the order of amps through a mixture consisting of a hot, atmospheric-pressur…

Military and commercial users require next-generation polymer dielectric materials for pulse power and power conditioning applications with rise times less than 1 ms and AC power at frequencies ranging from kHz to MHz. These power density and rate capability requirements necessi…

The work presented in this dissertation is primarily aimed at improving the understanding of the electrical properties of the insulating polymer crosslinked polyethylene (XLPE) in order to support its use as power cable insulation. XLPE has been used for decades as the material …