FEM simulation of thermistors including dielectric effects

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 39, Issue 3 I, 2003, Pages 1733-1736

  Preis, Kurt ^a   Bíró, Oszkar ^a   Supancic, Peter ^b   Tičar, Igor ^c  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Finite element calculations; Positive temperature coefficient (PTC); Thermistors; Time dependent electric fields

Indexed keywords

BARIUM TITANATE; CAPACITANCE; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POSITIVE TEMPERATURE COEFFICIENT; THERMAL EFFECTS; VARISTORS;

DIELECTRIC EFFECTS; ELECTROCERAMIC; TIME DEPENDENT ELECTRIC FIELDS;

THERMISTORS;

EID: 0037505648     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2003.810351     Document Type: Article

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