Characteristics of Ag contact morphology in breaking arcs

Wear

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 237-244

  Chen, Zhuan Ke ^a   Sawa, Koichiro ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ag contacts; Arc erosion; Contact morphology; Deposition; Oxide films; Thermal effect

Indexed keywords

ANODES; CATHODES; DEPOSITION; ELECTRIC ARCS; EROSION; FILMS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEAR OF MATERIALS;

ARC EROSION; CONTACT MORPHOLOGY; OXIDE FILMS; SILVER CONTACTS;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

CONTACT; EROSION; SILVER;

EID: 0030293841     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0043-1648(96)06971-2     Document Type: Article

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