A Study on Microstructure for Influence on Operating Voltage of Zinc-Oxide Ceramic Varistor

  • Ik-Tae Im
  • Sung-Hoon Oh
  • Hyoung-Keun Park
  • Byung-Moon So
Conference paper
Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 341)

Abstract

In this study, the metal oxide TiO2 was selected as the control material for grain growth in order to lower the operating voltage of low-voltage high-energy absorbing element, and in order to review the influence of change in the added amount of oxide TiO2 on the crystal structure and voltage-current characteristics, the crystal structure directly influencing the dynamic voltage was measured with electronic scan microscope, and to check the potential as a low-voltage varistor, the voltage-current characteristics were measured and checked.

Keywords

Zinc-Oxide Microstructure Mean grain size section 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Ik-Tae Im
    • 1
  • Sung-Hoon Oh
    • 1
  • Hyoung-Keun Park
    • 2
  • Byung-Moon So
    • 3
  1. 1.Department of Mechanical Design Engineering, College of Eng.Chonbuk National UniversityJeonjuKorea
  2. 2.Department of Electronic EngineeringNamseoul UniversityCheonan-siKorea
  3. 3.Department of IT Applied System Engineering, College of Eng.Chonbuk National UniversityJeonjuKorea

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