Advanced Faraday cage measurements of charge and open-circuit voltage using water dielectrics

Journal of Electrostatics

Volumn 64, Issue 7-9, 2006, Pages 424-430

  Shahrooz Amin, M ^a   Peterson Jr , Thomas F ^b   Zahn, Markus ^a  

^a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Faraday cage; Negative non zero equilibrium charge; Open circuit voltage; Water dielectrics

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC CHARGE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMETERS; FARADAY EFFECT; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WATER;

FARADAY CAGE; NEGATIVE NON-ZERO EQUILIBRIUM CHARGE; OPEN-CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; WATER DIELECTRICS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

CAPACITANCE; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC CHARGE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMETERS; FARADAY EFFECT; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT; WATER;

EID: 33646770991     PISSN: 03043886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elstat.2005.10.020     Document Type: Article

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