Electronic phenomena on switch contacts

Filippakou, MP; Karagiannopoulos, CG; Bourkas, PD

dc.contributor.author	Filippakou, MP	en
dc.contributor.author	Karagiannopoulos, CG	en
dc.contributor.author	Bourkas, PD	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-01T02:41:05Z
dc.date.available	2014-03-01T02:41:05Z
dc.date.issued	1995	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/30357
dc.subject	Equivalent Circuit	en
dc.subject	Experimental Study	en
dc.subject	Field Emission	en
dc.subject	Microstructures	en
dc.subject	Quantum Mechanics	en
dc.subject	Metal Insulator Metal	en
dc.subject.other	Degradation	en
dc.subject.other	Electric conductivity	en
dc.subject.other	Electric currents	en
dc.subject.other	Electric fields	en
dc.subject.other	Electric variables measurement	en
dc.subject.other	Equivalent circuits	en
dc.subject.other	Ionization of solids	en
dc.subject.other	Microstructure	en
dc.subject.other	Surface phenomena	en
dc.subject.other	Thin films	en
dc.subject.other	Electronic phenomena	en
dc.subject.other	Impact ionization	en
dc.subject.other	Interfacial layer	en
dc.subject.other	Metal insulator metal theory	en
dc.subject.other	Overlayers	en
dc.subject.other	Quantum mechanical tunneling	en
dc.subject.other	Sliding contacts	en
dc.subject.other	Switch contacts	en
dc.subject.other	Electric contacts	en
dc.title	Electronic phenomena on switch contacts	en
heal.type	conferenceItem	en
heal.identifier.primary	10.1109/ISIE.1995.497308	en
heal.identifier.secondary	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.1995.497308	en
heal.publicationDate	1995	en
heal.abstract	Experimental studies presented in this paper indicate that stationary and sliding contacts of practical applications may exhibit non-linear behaviour. This can be attributed to the microstructures formed on the apparent contact surface. The physical phenomena which appear in this case seem to be dependent on the degradation of the contacts and the increase in thickness of the overlayers. The conductivity through thin interfacial layers (<50angstrom) is attributed to quantum mechanical tunneling and through thicker interfacial layers to field emission and impact ionisation. The well-established metal-insulator-metal theory provides the required theoretical basis for the interpretation of the measurements. Based on the above, an equivalent circuit is proposed, which is valid for both stationary and sliding contacts.	en
heal.publisher	IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States	en
heal.journalName	IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1109/ISIE.1995.497308	en
dc.identifier.volume	2	en
dc.identifier.spage	914	en
dc.identifier.epage	918	en