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dielectric

1. a substance or medium that can sustain a static electric field within it
2. a substance or body of very low electrical conductivity; insulator
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dielectric

[‚dī·ə′lek·trik]
(materials)
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dielectric

An insulator (glass, rubber, plastic, etc.). Dielectric materials can be made to hold an electrostatic charge, but current cannot flow through them.
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Robustly proliferating electrical and electronic industry in Asia Pacific is slated to fare well for the growth of plastic dielectric films market.
This is reportedly driving consumption of dielectric gases at a global level, as a majority of application areas continue to opt for dielectric gases as a preferred insulating medium over others.
Since we used similar dielectrics on both signal layers in our example, we shouldn't expect the dielectric loss component to be much different between the narrow trace on layer 3 and the wider trace on layer 6.
"We then highlighted how Dielectric is designing, building, and shipping a record number of antenna systems to serve the historic, national spectrum repack initiative."
Mathematical model of surface charge accumulation at the flat interface between two dielectrics. A high-voltage thermosetting composite insulation of electrical machine can be represented in the form of two layers of dielectric: a glass fiber substrate (1) with an impregnating compound (3) and a mica paper tape (2) as a dielectric barrier (Fig.
In this work, the relationship between the structure and the dielectric properties of the azo polymers was studied.
To describe the dielectric behaviors of a heterogeneous system caused by the Maxwell-Wagner polarization, various models have been developed (e.g., [11-20]) and a comprehensive review of the models can be found in Cai et al.
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