Low energy electron beam injected charge and its transport mechanisms in dieletrics.

Author(s)

Dante Luis Chinaglia

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC/BT)
• Defense date: 1999-04-23

Examining board members

Roberto Mendonça Faria; Ruy Alberto Corrêa Altafim; Roberto Hessel; Luiz Nunes de Oliveira; Gilberto Marrega Sandonato

• Advisor: Roberto Mendonça Faria

Abstract

This work presents several electric current measurements in dieletric polymers under irradiation by electron beam. The samples were irradiated in a current mode circuit. The energy of the beam provided a negative charge profile charge in the bulk o the sample. The polarity of the deposited charge was determined by a secundary emission curve. Since the energy of the beam was always bigger tham EII (which defines the balance between the injected electrons and the emitted ones; below EII the sample became positively charged, while above it is negatively charged) the samples (polyethylene propylene, high density polyethylene and low density polyethylene) were always negatively charged. Each irradiated sample was divided in two regions: the irradiated region and the non-irradiated one. Due to the secondary generated carries, the condutivity of the irradiated region gi was orders of magnitude higher than the intrinsic condutivity g1. The eletric currents were measured during and after the irradiation, under different external electric fields. Several theoretical models were used to explain the experimental results. The simplest one, the box models, considers the induced condutivity gb from 0 to r, and the intrinsic condutivity gi from r to L (L being the sample thickeness). The more sophisticated model, on the other hand, considers a range value &#916r around the point r. It means that the stopping power is not abruptly but rather is distributed in a region &#916r around the point r. For this reason the induced conductivity depends on the position, and in a more general framework, also in time. During the irradiation, carriers are injected to the sample by the electrodes, and in certain conditions the excess of charge has its polarity inverted. From the theoretical-experimental fittings important electrical parametes of the materials were obtained. (AU)