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Revista de Ingeniería
versión impresa ISSN 0121-4993
Resumen
RODRIGUEZ, Juan Sebastián; BONILLA, Sebastián y AVILA, Alba. Electrostatic Breakdown Measurements in Micro Gaps. rev.ing. [online]. 2009, n.29, pp.07-15. ISSN 0121-4993.
The continuous miniaturization of electronic and electromechanical devices has allowed the study of non-visible effects on macroscales, as it is the case of the behavior of microgap separated electrodes. The behavior of aluminum electrodes at atmospheric pressure appears here for a rank of separations of 1 μm to 22 μm. The Paschen curve is conventionally used to describe the behavior of electrodes. The results demonstrate that at separations smaller than 4 μm the breakdown voltage in the electrodes decays dramatically and it does not present a minimum as predicts the Paschen curve. This modification establishes critical conditions of operation in devices based on electrodes with microgap separations [1, 2].
Palabras clave : Breakdown voltage; MEMS; Paschen curve.