Understanding the Percolation Characteristics of Nonlinear Composite Dielectrics

Xiao Yang; Jun Hu; Shuiming Chen; Jinliang He

doi:10.1038/srep30597

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Understanding the Percolation Characteristics of Nonlinear Composite Dielectrics

Xiao Yang

Jun Hu

Shuiming Chen Jinliang He

Scientific Reports Vol. 6 No. 1 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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AbstractNonlinear composite dielectrics can function as smart materials for stress control and field grading in all fields of electrical insulations. The percolation process is a significant issue of composite dielectrics. However, the classic percolation theory mainly deals with traditional composites in which the electrical parameters of both insulation matrix and conducting fillers are independent of the applied electric field. This paper measured the nonlinear V-I characteristics of ZnO microvaristors/silicone rubber composites with several filler concentrations around an estimated percolation threshold. For the comparison with the experiment, a new microstructural model is proposed to simulate the nonlinear conducting behavior of the composite dielectrics modified by metal oxide fillers, which is based on the Voronoi network and considers the breakdown feature of the insulation matrix for near percolated composites. Through both experiment and simulation, the interior conducting mechanism and percolation process of the nonlinear composites were presented and a specific percolation threshold was determined as 33%. This work has provided a solution to better understand the characteristics of nonlinear composite dielectrics.

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Published: Aug 01, 2016
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Xiao Yang

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Jun Hu

School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology , Nanjing 210094, China; Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218, USA

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Shuiming Chen

Department of Oceanography, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii

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Jinliang He

State Key Laboratory of Power Systems Department of Electrical Engineering Tsinghua University Beijing 100084 China

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Xiao Yang, Jun Hu, Shuiming Chen, et al. (2016). Understanding the Percolation Characteristics of Nonlinear Composite Dielectrics. Scientific Reports, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep30597

Understanding the Percolation Characteristics of Nonlinear Composite Dielectrics

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