Modeling Electrical Arcing in Vacuum (IMAGE)

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Modeling Electrical Arcing in Vacuum

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Even in a vacuum, voltages can literally tear metal apart. Current research is using molecular dynamics to show what happens at the atomic level when material is damaged by arcing in vacuum.

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J. Norem, Z. Insepov, Th. Proslier, D. Huang, S. Mahalingam, and S. Veitzer

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