Defects in Insulating Materials

Partial Discharge in High Voltage Insulating Materials

High voltage transmission has been chosen in electric power system due to its capability to transfer a large amount of electric power. Several key equipments such as generator, transformer, GIS, cable and insulator play important role in determining the reliability of the power system. The high voltage equipments in general contain gas, liquid or solid insulation. Defects and a particular condi...

Radon permeability of insulating building materials

The common presence of the radioactive nuclides in the environment cause that the whole population are exposed to radiation. The dose that is annually received by Polish population from natural sources of radiation is about 2.4 mSv per year [1]. According to the UNSCEAR 2000 Report [2], radon is the greatest contributor of exposure to natural radiation for humans. Soil and the rocks on which th...

Charge Dynamics in Highly Insulating Space Craft Materials

We present a preliminary report on the theoretical and experimental study of transport models in highly insulating materials. The report is developed in four sections; first we give background on the nature of the problems in space craft charging, the contributions and connections made by the Utah State material physics group. Second we discuss the density of states to explore the connections b...

Identifying defects in nanoscale materials.

We have developed a novel iterative experimental-theoretical technique which can identify the atomic structure of defects in many-atom nanoscale materials from scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy data. A given model for a defect structure is iteratively improved until calculated microscopy and spectroscopy data based on the model converge on the experimental results. We use the techn...

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