I Megahed and A Nossier 1969 J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 2 880 doi:10.1088/0022-3735/2/10/311
I Megahed1 and A Nossier2
Show affiliationsA technique for the study of the pre-breakdown conduction current pulses in insulating liquids has been developed. It consisted of recording these pulses during the experiments on a magnetic tape and subsequently subjecting them to a number of statistical analyses. The analyses included the determination of the autocorrelation function and computation of the power spectrum. Typical examples showing the effects of applied electric stress, temperature and additives to the liquid on the autocorrelation function and power spectrum of the current pulses are given. The autocorrelation function showed that such fluctuations of the current were random and did not contain hidden periodic components. From the corresponding power spectra it was found that the fluctuations lay in the low audio frequency range.
77.84.Nh Liquids, emulsions, and suspensions; liquid crystals
71.45.Gm Exchange, correlation, dielectric and magnetic response functions, plasmons
Soft matter, liquids and polymers
Issue 10 (October 1969)
Received 11 April 1969
I Megahed and A Nossier 1969 J. Phys. E: Sci. Instrum. 2 880
Slava Krylov and Shimon Seretensky 2006 J. Micromech. Microeng. 16 1382
M. Dumm et al 2005 Europhys. Lett. 72 103
B L Johnson and G Kirczenow 1997 Rep. Prog. Phys. 60 889
M Peterseim et al 1997 Class. Quantum Grav. 14 1507
J Vernin and M Azouit 1983 J. Opt. 14 131
Massimiliano Bonamente et al 2001 ApJ 547 L7
L Todd 1997 Fluid Dyn. Res. 19 235
J S Lange et al 2009 JINST 4 P11001
John Ancsin 2007 Metrologia 44 303