Glowing contact physics

Electrical Contacts, Proceedings of the Annual Holm Conference on Electrical Contacts

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 48-57

  Shea, John J ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b EATON CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcing; Conductivity; Copper oxide; CuO; Glowing contact; Glowing filament; Oxidation; Resistivity

Indexed keywords

COPPER OXIDES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE MEASUREMENT; GLOW DISCHARGES; OXIDATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ARCING; GLOWING CONTACTS; GLOWING FILAMENTS; OXIDE BRIDGE RESISTIVITY;

ELECTRIC CONTACTS;

EID: 38549146343     PISSN: 03614395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HOLM.2006.284064     Document Type: Conference Paper

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