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Correlation between Ionizing and Attachment Coefficients and Breakdown Characteristics for Carbon Tetrafluoride

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THE growth of pre-breakdown currents with distance has been investigated in carbon tetrafluoride for various constant values of E/p (E is the field, p the gas pressure). The purpose of this communication is to give results for ionization and attachment derived from this investigation and to show that they are consistent with previously published1 breakdown-voltage characteristics for this material in uniform and non-uniform fields. Carbon tetrafluoride is no longer available commercially in Britain and this limited the number of pre-breakdown current measurements.

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  1. Howard, P. R., Proc. Inst. Elec. Eng., A, 104, 123 (1957).

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HOWARD, P. Correlation between Ionizing and Attachment Coefficients and Breakdown Characteristics for Carbon Tetrafluoride. Nature 181, 645–646 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181645a0

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