Improvement of surface flashover performance in vacuum by co-firing Mo/Al2O3 cermets and Al2O3 ceramics

A new insulation structure of Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet-Al 2 O 32 ceramic-Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet was designed to improve the surface flashover performance in vacuum through co-firing, where the volume addition of metal Mo was managed from 2 vol% to 50 vol% and there could exist one or two layers with different...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on dielectrics and electrical insulation 2010-12, Vol.17 (6), p.1931-1937
Main Authors: Li, Shengtao, Zhang, Tuo, Sun, Jian, Huang, Qifeng, Li, Jianying
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum oxide
Ceramics
cofiring
Delinquency
Electric fields
Flashover
Insulators
Investigations
Junctions
Microprocessors
Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet
secondary electron
Surface charging
Surface flashover in vacuum
triple junction
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Summary:A new insulation structure of Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet-Al 2 O 32 ceramic-Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet was designed to improve the surface flashover performance in vacuum through co-firing, where the volume addition of metal Mo was managed from 2 vol% to 50 vol% and there could exist one or two layers with different Mo addition in Mo/Al2O3 cermet. The influences of Mo addition of Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet on the surface flashover voltage in vacuum of samples were experimentally investigated, indicating that the surface flashover voltage of three and five-layer structures were improved by 77% and 117%, respectively. Through electrostatic field simulation, it was found that the improvement is caused by the weakening of the electric field at vacuum-insulator-cathode triple junction. On the basis of an in-depth investigation, it was also concluded that Mo particles of Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet layer can decline the surface charging and secondary electron emission near the triple junction. Then with a further increase of Mo addition, the decreasing trend of flashover voltage after the growing has been reasonably explained by investigating the configuration of Mo particles in Mo/Al 2 O 3 cermet.
ISSN:1070-9878
1558-4135
DOI:10.1109/TDEI.2010.5658248