
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Butler, LA 
A1  - Hanscomb, JR 
T1  - Electrical Breakdown in Polycrystalline Sodium Chloride at 350°C
JF  - Australian Journal of Physics
JO  - Aust. J.  Phys.
Y1  - 1965
VL  - 18
IS  - 2
SP  - 193
EP  - 194
KW  - 
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/PH650193 
N2  - Previous work (cf. Hanscomb 1962) provided strong evidence that in single crystals of sodium chloride, the mechanism of electrical breakdown is "thermal" at 350°C under conditions in which the specimens were subjected to linearly rising fields resulting in breakdown in the time range 3·5 ms-lO s. The thermal mechanism invoked in that study attributed breakdown to Joule heating from ionic current. No evidence of an electronic contribution to the pre-breakdown current with a consequent "intrinsic" type mechanism of breakdown was found. 
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