液体介质快脉冲电压下击穿特性研究

设计了液体介质快脉冲击穿试验装置和电压电流测量系统，研究了重复频率、电极形状及电极间距与介质击穿场强、击穿电压和击穿时延等击穿特性参数的关系，比较了变压器油、十二烷基苯、蓖麻油三种典型液体绝缘介质在直流及快脉冲电压作用下的绝缘性能。结果表明:短脉冲持续时间下液体绝缘材料有异常高的击穿场强；重复脉冲串作用下的击穿场强比单个脉冲下明显减小，重复频率2 kHz时击穿场强减小了约30％；电极头半径大小对击穿也有影响，半径R＝5 mm时，击穿电压最高；击穿时延随击穿场强减小而变长，在其他条件相同的情况下，测得击穿时延随机波动；蓖麻油的快脉冲电压绝缘性能最好，变压器油次之。     

液体介质快脉冲电压下击穿特性研究

 设计了液体介质快脉冲击穿试验装置和电压电流测量系统，研究了重复频率、电极形状及电极间距与介质击穿场强、击穿电压和击穿时延等击穿特性参数的关系，比较了变压器油、十二烷基苯、蓖麻油三种典型液体绝缘介质在直流及快脉冲电压作用下的绝缘性能。结果表明：短脉冲持续时间下液体绝缘材料有异常高的击穿场强；重复脉冲串作用下的击穿场强比单个脉冲下明显减小，重复频率2 kHz时击穿场强减小了约30％；电极头半径大小对击穿也有影响，半径R＝5 mm时，击穿电压最高；击穿时延随击穿场强减小而变长，在其他条件相同的情况下，测得击穿时延随机波动；蓖麻油的快脉冲电压绝缘性能最好，变压器油次之。     

10μm级聚酯薄膜介质电临界击穿场强初步研究(英文)

分析了聚酯薄膜电击穿可能的模型,如本征击穿模型和电一机械击穿模型,估算了两种模型下常用聚合物介质的临界击穿场强。实验研究了平板电极结构下10μm级聚酯薄膜的自击穿电压,得出了聚酯薄膜的临界击穿场强450-500kV／mm。实验结果与理论计算值比较表明：本征击穿模型下的聚酯薄膜临界击穿场强都远小于实验结果,电～机械击穿模型下聚酯薄膜临界击穿场强大于实验结果。     

甘油介质在同轴形成线中的击穿特性研究

针对甘油介质在形成线中的应用,总结了甘油作为储能介质已开展的相关研究工作,并在缩比的同轴电极试件中进行了电极表面、磁场、耐压极性、含气量等条件对甘油介质击穿特性影响的实验研究。搭建了基于晶闸管控制的空心脉冲变压器升压实验平台,设计了浸没于脉冲磁场中的同轴电极击穿试件,实验平台最大输出电压500 kV,上升时间26 s,最大磁场1 T,可通过控制晶闸管的先后触发使击穿过程发生于准稳衡磁场中,并制作了外形一致、表面不同的砂纸打磨、羊毛抛光、金属电镀和非金属电镀四种电极。实验结果表明:甘油的击穿是没有极性的;1 T量级磁场对甘油介质的击穿特性无影响;不同电极表面微观形貌差异较大,使甘油介质具有不同的击穿特性,说明甘油击穿在电极表面的过程具有较大影响;充分的排气能减少甘油中直径较大的气泡,减少概率性的低击穿场强,击穿后产生的大量微小气泡会整体降低甘油的击穿阈值,使甘油的平均击穿场强降低。     

微机电系统微尺度间隙的脉冲击穿特性

利用微机电系统(MEMS)工艺制备了5~40 m间隙的金属铝薄膜电极,测取了不同间隙下施加纳秒方波脉冲时的击穿电压,得到击穿电压和平均场强随电极间隙的变化规律,研究了脉宽、极性对击穿电压的影响,结合击穿后微电极扫描电镜观察结果讨论了其击穿机理,并与相同试样在直流下的结果进行了对比。研究表明:击穿电压随微间隙距离的增大而增大,击穿场强则随着间隙的增大迅速减小;与直流同间隙的击穿电压相比,脉冲作用下的击穿电压并不像宏观尺度下那样高出很多;试样击穿机理应为流注理论。在脉冲作用下,阳极出现了分层熔化现象,由于作用时间很短,阳极表面并未出现类似于直流击穿时留下的坑洞;阴极则出现了溅射沉积现象,只是沉积物质相对较少。     

微秒脉冲下碳酸丙烯酯的击穿特性

采用紧凑Tesla变压器型脉冲功率驱动源及球电极击穿试件,通过改变初级充电电压,开展了微秒级充电条件下碳酸丙烯酯及其与碳酸乙烯酯的混合液的击穿实验研究。由结果和分析可知:碳酸丙烯酯理论工作温度可低至-55℃,这意味着它可以成为一种低温下的良好液体电介质;碳酸丙烯酯耐压性能与去离子水相当,且实测电阻率达到了10 MΩ·cm以上;向碳酸丙烯酯中添加碳酸乙烯酯后,介电常数可提高至80以上,耐压强度也有所提升;将碳酸丙烯酯、碳酸乙烯酯/碳酸丙烯酯混合液用于脉冲形成线作为储能介质无需附加去离子处理系统,有利于装置的紧凑化和小型化。     

加压乙二醇/水混合液耐μs级高电压击穿实验研究

 采用同轴电极实验装置,在μs级充电时进行了加压乙二醇/水混合液正电极击穿实验,并对实验结果进行了分析和解释,得出结论如下：击穿场强随静压以1/8次幂的关系而增加;击穿场强系数随乙二醇浓度的增加而增加;加压和添加乙二醇对于提高水介质耐高电压击穿的能力具有可叠加性,加压比添加乙二醇更有效;在静压12×10⁵ Pa下乙二醇浓度80%的混合液击穿场强比常压下纯水击穿场强高112.2%。加压提高乙二醇/水混合液击穿场强的主要机制是加压增加了击穿延迟时间。     

高压氢气亚纳秒开关击穿特性

 在超宽谱脉冲产生辐射系统或脉冲功率源中,常用高压气体开关来产生快脉冲沿的高功率电磁脉冲。为了研究高压氢气亚纳秒开关的击穿特性,通过实验研究了氢气开关在高气压和短间隙距离条件下的击穿特性。开关输入脉冲的峰值幅度约220 kV,脉宽3～4 ns。氢气气压4～13 MPa,间隙距离0.4～1.2 mm。结果表明：开关击穿电压随气压升高而增加,且开关气压达到11 MPa后击穿电压随气压增加的趋势变缓;开关击穿电压随间距增加而增加,平均击穿场强随间距增加而减小,氢气开关平均击穿场强分布在3～7 MV/cm之间;开关导通时间随气压增加略有减小,随间隙距离增加有小幅增加。     

电极表面特性对甘油介质击穿特性的影响

基于几种常见的电极表面处理工艺,制作了外形一致、表面不同的砂纸打磨、羊毛抛光、金属电镀和非金属电镀四种同轴电极,对比了电极在微观下的形貌特点,通过实验研究了不同电极表面特性与甘油介质耐压的关系。搭建了基于晶闸管控制的空心脉冲变压器升压实验平台,最大输出电压500 kV,上升时间26 s。实验结果表明:四种电极的微观形貌存在较大差异,并引起了甘油击穿特性的不同,在相同充电电压条件下,甘油的平均击穿场强为210~260 kV/cm;与使用常规的砂纸打磨电极相比,使用羊毛抛光、金属电镀、非金属电镀电极可分别使击穿场强提高14.51%,11.60%,19.67%,其中非金属电镀电极表面均匀程度远高于其他电极,最高击穿场强可达288 kV/cm,比对照组平均击穿场强提高33.09%。     

电极材料及偏压极性对氧化物介质击穿行为的影响及机制

忆阻器和能量存储电容器具有相同的三明治结构,然而两个器件需要的操作电压有明显差异,因此在同一个器件中,研究操作电压的影响因素并对操作电压进行调控,实现器件在不同领域的应用是十分必要的一个工作.本文利用反应磁控溅射技术在ITO导电玻璃、Pt/Si基底上生长了多晶ZrO_2和非晶TaO_x薄膜,选用不同金属材料Au, Ag和Al用作上电极构建了多种金属/氧化物介质/金属三明治结构的电容器,研究了器件在不同偏压极性下的击穿强度.结果发现:底电极是ITO的ZrO_2基电容器在负偏压下的击穿电场比Pt电极器件稍大.不管底电极是ITO还是Pt, Ag作为上电极时器件的击穿强度均存在明显的偏压极性依赖性,正偏压下的击穿电场减小了一个数量级;相反,在Al作为上电极的Al/TaO_x/Pt器件中,正向偏压比负向偏压下的击穿电场增加了近2倍.上述器件的不同击穿行为分别可以由氧化物电极和介质界面层间氧的迁移和重排、电化学活性金属电极的溶解迁移和还原以及化学活性金属电极与氧化物界面的氧化还原反应来解释.该实验结果对有不同操作电压要求的器件,如忆阻器和介质储能电容器等在器件设计和操作方面具有指导意义.     

Abnormal Polarity Effects of Streamer Discharge in Propylene Carbonate under Microsecond Pulses

Propylene carbonate(PC) has a great potential to be used as an energy storage medium in the compact pulsed power sources due to its high dielectric constant and large resistivity. We investigate both the positive and negative breakdown characteristics of PC. The streamer patterns are obtained by ultra-high-speed cameras. The experimental results show that the positive breakdown voltage of PC is about 135% higher than the negative one, which is abnormal compared with the common liquid. The shape of the positive streamer is filamentary and branchy, while the negative streamer is tree-like and less branched. According to these experimental results, a charge layer structure model at the interface between the metal electrode and liquid is presented. It is suggested that the abnormal polarity effect basically arises from the electric field strength difference in the interface between both electrodes and PC. What is more, the recombination radiation and photoionization also play an important role in the whole discharge process.     

The influence of polarity on trigatron switching performance

This paper reports on a study into the effect of trigger voltage polarity and main gap voltage polarity on the switching performance of a pulse charged trigatron. The four polarity combinations possible, two homopolarity (trigger voltage and main gap voltage of the same polarity) and two heteropolarity (trigger voltage and main gap voltage of opposite polarity), were studied and compared in terms of their effect upon the switching range, delay time to breakdown, jitter, and voltage collapse time. It was found that the two heteropolarity configurations were superior to the homopolarity configurations in terms of the above switching characteristics, with the positive trigger/negative main gap heteropolarity configuration performing the best. The results are discussed, and an explanation of the influence of the polarity configuration on switching is suggested in terms of the discharge initiation mechanisms and subsequent development     

Experimental study of polarity dependence in repetitive nanosecond-pulse breakdown

Pulsed breakdown of dry air at ambient pressure has been investigated in the point-plane geometry, using repetitive nanosecond pulses with 10 ns risetime, 20--30 ns duration, and up to 100 kV amplitude. A major concern in this paper is to study the dependence of breakdown strength on the point-electrode polarity. Applied voltage, breakdown current and repetitive stressing time are measured under the experimental conditions of some variables including pulse voltage peak, gap spacing and repetition rate. The results show that increasing the E-field strength can decrease breakdown time lag, repetitive stressing time and the number of applied pulses as expected. However, compared with the traditional polarity dependence it is weakened and not significant in the repetitive nanosecond-pulse breakdown. The ambiguous polarity dependence in the experimental study is involved with an accumulation effect of residual charges and metastable states. Moreover, it is suggested that the reactions associated with the detachment of negative ions and impact deactivation of metastable species could provide a source of primary initiating electrons for breakdown.     

Electron-optical study of the initial phase of subnanosecond pulsed electric breakdown of gas-filled gaps

The glow accompanying the breakdown of gas gaps with a strong overvoltage by voltage pulses with 1-ns and shorter fronts is studied by electron optics methods. The filling of the gap with glow was accompanied by the development of ionization wave processes originating in the bulk of the gas and controlling the first stage of the breakdown. The dynamics of evolution of ionization waves in the electrode gap was analyzed in the 1D approximation. The results of calculations are in qualitative agreement with experiment. This leads to the conclusion that breakdown can be initiated from the bulk of the gas rather than from the surface of the electrodes. At this stage, the electrodes are mainly required for producing the electric field in the gap.     

Breakdown magnetic field in an inductively coupled plasma

The Paschen curve shows that the breakdown voltage over a gap is a non-linear function of the product of the gas pressure and the gap distance for plasmas which are generated inside an electric field driven source. The Paschen breakdown relationship does not depend on the applied frequency and covers secondary emission at the electrodes of the discharge. Adapting the Paschen curve, a breakdown curve for a time-dependent magnetic field, typical for inductively coupled plasmas which sources are without electrodes, is examined here. It is shown that in this case the magnetic field breakdown curve does depend on the applied frequency.     

Application of Mn nano-flower sculptured thin films produced on interdigitated pattern as cathode and anode electrodes in field ionization gas sensor

The photolitography method was used for producing interdigitated configurations for cathode and anode electrodes of a field ionization gas sensor in which Mn helical nano-flowers with 3-fold symmetry were deposited using oblique angle deposition together with rotation of the substrate about its surface normal, with each rotation divided into six sections. These sections were alternately rotated at high and low speeds. Three different distances were chosen in the design between anode and cathode electrodes, namely 40, 100 and 200 μm. Physical structure and morphology of electrodes were studied by field emission scanning electron microscope and atomic force microscope analyses.The breakdown voltage of the system was studied for nitrogen, oxygen, argon, air and carbon mono-oxide gases. Investigations with these gases at different distances between anode and cathode and different gas pressures confirmed Paschen's Law. Results showed that at low pressures, decreasing the gap between electrodes increases the breakdown voltage. With fewer gas molecules between the electrodes the number of interactions between particles is reduced and higher energies are required for ionization of gas molecules. At high pressures, the breakdown voltage is decreased because of an increased number of molecular interactions. The sensor demonstrated good selectivity between the different gases and selectivity was enhanced with increasing gas pressure. A direct relationship was found at low pressures (e.g., 0.1 mbar) between the breakdown voltage and the gas ionization energy while at high pressures (e.g., 1000 mbar) this relationship was reversed.     

Investigation of a single dielectric barrier discharge in submillimeter air gaps: Uniform field

The characteristics of a single discharge in 0.01–0.2-cm air gaps are investigated under atmospheric pressure between the metal electrodes and in the presence of a polymer barrier on one of the electrodes. The experimentally determined surface charge density distributions are satisfactorily described by a 2D Gaussian function with the proposed parameters. In the uniform field, the breakdown voltage weakly depends on the presence of a dielectric barrier. At the same time, the change from the positive to negative polarity of the metal electrode leads to a manifold increase in the discharge current and in the surface charge. The breakdown occurs under considerable overvoltage; the estimates indicate the streamer mechanism of the breakdown.     

A high-current rail-type gas switch with preionization by an additional corona discharge

The characteristics of a high-current rail-type gas switch with preionization of the gas (air) in a spark gap by an additional corona discharge are investigated. The experiments were performed in a voltage range of 10–45 kV using a two-electrode switch consisting of two cylindrical electrodes with a diameter of 22 mm and a length of 100 mm and a set of laterally located corona-discharge needles. The requirements for the position and size of the needles are defined for which a corona discharge is ignited before a breakdown of the main gap and does not change to a sparking form, and the entire length of the rail electrodes is efficiently used. The fulfillment of these requirements ensures stable operation of the switch with a small variation of the pulse breakdown voltage, which is not more than 1% for a fixed voltage-pulse rise time in the range from 150 ns to 3.5 μs. A short delay time of the switch breakdown makes it possible to control the two-electrode switch by an overvoltage pulse of nanosecond duration.     

Use of a liquid-metal cathode in high-vacuum studies of electric breakdown

Studies of electric breakdown in a high vacuum involving liquid-metal (mercury and gallium) cathodes, whose surfaces are stabilized by centrifugal forces, have shown that an increase in the angular velocity at which the experimental apparatus rotates causes an increase in the breakdown field; the mechanism for the vacuum breakdown is found to be independent of the voltage across the electrodes. According to the Frenkel theory, vacuum breakdown results from a disruption of the steady state on the liquid-cathode surface in an electric field. Drops of liquid metal on the anode degrade the dielectric properties of the vacuum gap. Under these conditions, the breakdown mechanism becomes dependent on the voltage across the electrodes. Oxide films on the cathode surface also degrade the dielectric properties of the vacuum gap. It is suggested that the dielectric may be charged by positive ions emitted from the cathode.Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii Fizika, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 44–49, April, 1969.