Surface potential decay and DC surface flashover characteristics of DBD plasma-treated silicone rubber
- 27 July 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nanotechnology
- Vol. 31 (42), 424005
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aba29f
Abstract
This paper presents an investigation on DC flashover voltage of silicone rubber (SiR) improved by dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma treatments under ambient atmospheric pressure air. DC surface conductivity, surface potential decay (SPD), DC surface flashover voltage, partial discharge magnitude, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectrograms, and surface water contact angles are measured to analyze the influence of plasma treatment on the SiR. It is found that the speed of SPD increase consistently with the plasma modification time. The tendency of flashover voltage is increasing at first and then decreasing with the increased time of the plasma treatment. The magnitude and number of partial discharge pulses increase apparently with the increased plasma treatment time. Physicochemical measurements indicate that more amount of polar groups appear on surface after the DBD plasma modification, whereas the surface water contact angles decline continuously with the increased plasma modification time. However, the hydrophobicity is recovered after 30 d exposure in the air. It is demonstrated that the SPD is accelerated significantly due to the increased surface conductivities and density of shallow traps. However, the reduction of flashover voltage after longer time of the plasma treatment is attributed to the increased mobility of charge carriers on the sample surface.Keywords
Funding Information
- Central Universities in China (2018QNA4017)
- Major State Basic Research Development Program of China (2018YFB0904400)
- Zhejiang University (A)
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