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The document discusses the book 'Foundations of Vacuum Science and Technology,' which covers various aspects of vacuum technology, including dielectric properties of materials and testing methods. It highlights the importance of vacuum systems in various applications and provides a comprehensive overview of the field, making it useful for scientists and engineers. The text is well-structured, with sections dedicated to multicomponent polymers and their applications in vacuum technology.

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Foundations of Vacuum Science and Technology

Article in IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine · August 1998


DOI: 10.1109/MEI.1998.689278 · Source: IEEE Xplore

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new polymer, or polymers blended with tems, including vacuum, gas, liquid, pressure of various solid and liquid ele-
non-polymeric fillers, such as glass or solid, and composite materials. After a ments. Sections on calibrating pressure
carbon fiber. The reasons for blending brief introduction to the dielectric prop- gauges, outgassing rates, and designing
polymers include higher performance erties of materials, there are chapters re- high vacuum systems were of particular
through synergism, to achieve desired lated to specific types of insulation interest. The table of pressure conver-
properties, to aid the recycling process, materials, such as gas dielectrics, air, SF6, sion factors to other units is very useful
to adjust a composition to customer liquid dielectrics, solid dielectrics, vac- when dealing with the numerous pres-
specifications, and to dilute for reduced uum dielectrics, and composite dielec- sure units. This advanced text could
cost. This book is broken down into trics. Particular issues related to high useful to scientists and engineers work-
three sections dealing with voltage cable are discussed in a separate ing in the area of vacuum technology.
multicomponent polymers. The first chapter. Testing methods are discussed
section, “Basic Concepts in in the final three chapters on generation ELECTRONICS FUNDAMENTALS
Multicomponent Polymer Materials,” and measurement of testing voltages, ( 4 T H EDITION)
describes the science of both polymer new diagnostic techniques, such as auto-
blends and composites, where poly- mated testing, optical probes, and space by Thomas L. Floyd
mers are combined with other poly- charge measurement, and insulation test Prentice-Hall
mers as well as non-polymeric procedures. This book is a good collec- One Lake Street
materials. The physical characteristics tion in one place of the basic information Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
of multicomponent systems are de- in this area and should be useful to prac- 940 pages - $75
tailed, some of which include: blending ticing engineers as well as to students This revised edition offers practical
and grafting, determining domain size learning about the field. coverage of basic electronic concepts and
and structure, phase transitions, -K. E Schoch,]K circuits, including significant coverage of
Takayanagi models, miscibility, meth- applications and troubleshooting. Di-
ods of causing phase separation, and FOUNDATIONS
OF VACUUM vided into three sections, the first section
fracture behavior. Section I1 describes AND TECHNOLOGY
SCIENCE on dc circuits covers components and
classes of polymer surfaces and inter- units, voltage- current-resistance, Ohm’s
faces and methods for characterizing Edited by J.M. Lafferty law- energy- power, series circuits, paral-
the interface and means for strengthen- John Wiley & Sons, Inc. lel circuits, series-parallel circuits, and
ing the interface. Also detailed are the 605 Third Ave. magnetism and electromagnetism. The
surfaces of advanced and composite sys- NewYork, NY 10158-0012 second section on ac circuits covers an in-
tems that include filler treatments, car- 728 pages - $150 (hardback) troduction to ac and voltage, capacitors,
bon fiber, plasma treatment, and Numerous analytical material char- inductors, transformers, RC circuits, RL
carbon black fillers. The third section acterization techniques rely on vacuum circuits, RLC circuits and resonance, and
covers rubber toughening of engineer- systems as well as plasma process tech- pulse response of reactive circuits. The
ing plastics, such as HIPS, ABS, PVC, niques, laboratory experiments, high third section on devices covers an intro-
PC, HDPE, and epoxies, to name a few. energy accelerators, freeze drying of duction to semiconductors, diodes, tran-
An appendix of polymer abbreviations food and drugs, x-ray tubes, and even sistors and thyristors, amplifiers and
is also included. The book is well writ- commercial products, such as vacuum oscillators, operational amplifiers, and
ten and is easy to read and contains very interrupters. Basic knowledge of vac- the basic operations of operational am-
useful information in the area of devel- uum techniques is thus a prerequisite to plifiers. Several useful appendices are in-
oping engineering polymer blends from working in the field. This book provides cluded on standard resistor values, circuit
either multicomponent polymers and or a comprehensive coverage of the entire breadboarding and measurements, ca-
non-polymeric fillers. vacuum field, from the fundamental pacitor color coding, and a glossary.
theory of kinetic gas flow to ultra high -C. Harper
ELECTRICAL [NSULATION vacuum and numerous kinds of vacuum
IN POWER SYSTEMS pumps, including “dry” pumps that OF POLYMERIC
RHEOLOGY SYSTEMS
produce a “clean vacuum” free of hy-
by N. H. Malik, A. A. Al-Arainy, and drocarbons. While all this material is by Pierre J. Carreau, Daniel C. R.
M. I. Qureshi new, the book follows in the tradition DeKee, and Raj l? Chhabra
Marcel Dekker, Inc. set by Saul Dushman’s work, Scientific Hanser-Gardner Publications
270 Madison Ave. Foundations of Vacuum Technique, 6915 Valley Ave.
New York, NY 10016-0602 published in 1949 and revised in 1962. Cincinnati, OH 45244-9972
400 pages - $145 This textbook would be a valuable re- 520 pages - $197.50
This book is one of the few recent source to anyone involved in vacuum The rheological properties of poly-
texts dealing with the broad range of in- technology at any level. Appendices mers, particularly viscosity and flow
sulation materials used in power sys- contain useful information on the vapor characteristics, are important in the

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