Electrical breakdown

thumb|upright=1.5|Strokes of cloud-to-ground lightning strike the Mediterranean Sea off of Port-la-Nouvelle in southern France.

electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla

electrical discharge brought on by the ionization of a fluid such as air surrounding a conductor that is electrically charged

sudden flow of electricity between two electrically charged objects caused by contact, an electrical short, or dielectric breakdown

photographic technique used to capture electrical coronal discharges

kind of electrical discharge

type of electrical transformer used to produce high-voltage pulses from a low-voltage direct current (DC) supply

physical phenomenon where applying sufficient voltage causes an electrical insulator to become conductive

gap between two electrodes that is used for generating sparks

A branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials

phenomenon that can occur in both insulating and semiconducting materials

Irish mathematical physicist (1868–1957)

the minimum voltage that causes an insulator to become electrically conductive

physical law about electrical discharge in gases

localized dielectric breakdown (DB) of a small portion of a solid or fluid electrical insulation (EI) system under high voltage (HV) stress, which does not bridge the space between two conductors

type of electrical breakdown in a reverse-biased diode

sensing element of a Geiger counter instrument

process in which a number of free electrons in a transmission medium are subjected to strong acceleration by an electric field and subsequently collide with other atoms of the medium, thereby ionizing them (impact ionization)

gas-filled tube for voltage regulation employing either glow or corona discharge

electrical pre-breakdown phenomenon in solid insulation

component of the electrical power system

for measuring the electrical breakdown (tracking) properties of insulating material

physical unit of reduced electric field

short circuits