Development of silver zinc oxide for general-purpose relays

IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 656-662

  Schoepf, Thomas J ^a,b   Behrens, Volker ^c   Honig, Thomas ^c   Kraus, Andreas ^c  

^a Tyco Electronics   (Germany)

^b DELPHI CORPORATION   (United States)

^c AMI DODUCO GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

AC 1; AC 15; General purpose relay; Silver cadmium oxide; Silver metal oxides; Silver tin oxide; Silver zinc oxide

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC LOADS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SWITCHING; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONTACT MATERIALS;

ELECTRIC RELAYS;

EID: 0036999791     PISSN: 15213331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCAPT.2002.807999     Document Type: Conference Paper

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