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Probability distribution of the breakdown electric fields of polymer dielectrics

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The probability distribution is derived for the breakdown electric field of polymers, treated as inhomogeneous dielectrics. The extremal distribution and the Weibull distribution are shown to be particular cases of the result found. The experimental results found with low-pressure polyethylene and polyethylene, Styroflex, and polyethylene terephthalate films are consistent with the theoretical probability distribution found for the breakdown electric field.

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  1. S. M. Kirov Tomsk Polytechnical Institute, USSR

    V. S. Dmitrevskii & V. I. Merkulov

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  1. V. S. Dmitrevskii
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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 1, pp. 49–55, January, 1971.

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Dmitrevskii, V.S., Merkulov, V.I. Probability distribution of the breakdown electric fields of polymer dielectrics. Soviet Physics Journal 14, 34–39 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00819857

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