Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2014) 129: 210
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14210-4

Regular Article

Regenerated charge packet dynamics in polyethylene films under dc high applied fields

Laboratoire des matériaux composites céramiques et polymères (LaMaCoP), Faculté des sciences, 3000, Sfax, Tunisia

^* e-mail: slimchouikhi@yahoo.fr

Received: 28 February 2014
Accepted: 20 August 2014
Published online: 6 October 2014

Abstract

In this paper, we aim to study the repetitive cycle aspect of charge packets observed in nano and macro scale polyethylene under dc applied fields. This aspect is investigated for the first time in modeling works although large research effort has been invested in trying to reproduce the charge packet aspect. Our model results show that the repetitive cycle appearance modifies the local electric field distributions in the sample, and also induces new dynamics observed in injected current and interfacial electric field oscillations. Our model results are validated experimentally for the space charge distribution, for the first time in modeling.