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The investigation and improvement of the lifetime of high voltage ceramic capacitor under repetitive frequency operation

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The lifetime tests for High Voltage Ceramic Capacitors (HVCC) were investigated under repetitive frequency operation at 25 Hz and three kinds of failure modes were summarized. The significant innovation of… Click to show full abstract

The lifetime tests for High Voltage Ceramic Capacitors (HVCC) were investigated under repetitive frequency operation at 25 Hz and three kinds of failure modes were summarized. The significant innovation of this paper is testing HVCC, made in the laboratory, under repetitive pulses and proposing several effective improvement methods. The results show that the lifetime of HVCC meets inverse power-law with the applied voltage and the voltage acceleration factor is about 5.8. Failure modes of HVCC are inner breakdown of ceramic dielectric, interface breakdown of ceramic-epoxy and abscission of brass terminals. The inner breakdown is in connection with abrupt destructive discharge under much higher stress while the interface breakdown is related to interface delamination and development of electrical trees in relatively low strength. The third failure mode is always caused by high current density. Based on the failure modes, several methods were taken to improve the performance of HVCC, which included coating semiconductor at the edge of silver layers, adding coupling agent to ceramic-epoxy interface and improving the structure of brass terminals. The lifetime of HVCC under repetitive frequency operation has been extended greatly from 103 shots to more than 105 shots after the investigation and improvement.

Keywords: frequency operation; voltage; improvement; repetitive frequency

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
Year Published: 2017

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