HIGH VOLTAGE RESEARCH (BREAKDOWN STRENGTHS OF GASEOUS AND LIQUID INSULATORS)nFirst Quarterly Report (Period Ending June 30, 1976)

摘要

Two experimental breakdown apparatuses have been constructed in sequence;the first has provided initial data and lessons for improve¬ment in the second. Breakdown strength measurements have been made for a number of unitary and multicomponent gaseous insulators which were chosen on the basis of physical knowledge concerning their interactions with slow electrons.nThe fundamental physicochemical data on many promising gaseous insulators have been reviewed, and an extensive collection of promising samples has been acquired. Needed additional basic data have been (and are being) obtained with existing apparatus in the Atomic and Molecular Physics Group. The full staffing of the High Voltage Research Project has been completed, and contacts with many groups inside and outside the United States working on gaseous and liquid dielectrics have been established.