14
Dielectric Materials
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you will learn about:
- Electric fields, capacitance, and permittivity
- Dielectric materials most commonly used
- Properties of dielectric materials
- Shortcomings of dielectric materials
- Series and parallel representation of dielectric losses
- Loss angle and its significance
Twin shielded cable
14.1 INTRODUCTION
A capacitor consists basically of two metal plates separated by a dielectric, such as air, paper, ceramic, aluminium oxide, tantalum oxide, Teflon, and other insulating materials that have controlled impurities. The size of a capacitor is dependent on the area of the metal plates, the ...
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