Filamentary electrical conduction in polyimide films detected by infrared thermography before thermal breakdown

Autor: Sombel Diaham, Thierry Lebey, Guillaume Belijar, Marie-Laure Locatelli
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Applied Physics Letters. 110:162902
ISSN: 1077-3118
0003-6951
DOI: 10.1063/1.4980844
Popis: An experimental evidence of filamentary electrical conduction existence in polyimide (PI) films under DC voltage just prior to thermal breakdown is reported. This was achieved by real-time surface temperature mapping of PI-metallized samples initially at 300 °C using fast infrared thermography coupled to current-voltage measurements until the breakdown. The transition from a full-electrode conduction to a filamentary conduction is clearly identified through the detection of a localized hot spot within the PI samples in the last 100–150 ms before breakdown. A conduction path, with values inferior to 500 μm in the few ms before the breakdown, was estimated leading to temperature rising up to 100 K above the initial temperature. This work confirms the existence of a filamentary conduction in thermoset polymers prior thermal breakdown.
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