The I guess my question becomes, will the energy field only be constant across portions of this capacitor that have a uniform dielectric? Like will the electric field strength be constant across the glass portions of the petri dish, but differ once the e-field makes it to the air portion...
The foamglas is to be the dielectric between the parallel plates and the petri dish. I figured that the large constant (90 I beleive) would offset the added distance between the plates. The dishes we are using are quite tall compared to those I have seen in the past (they are about 1 inch...
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The distance between the plates is going to be around 1inch to 1.75inches. The overall plate area is going to be maximized but is limited to the dimensions of the incubator which the system must fit into. Currently I am designing the system to have plate areas of approximately 144in^2.
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The design is unique because we are placing petri dishes between the capacitor plates, that must have an air supply and cannot be subject to contaminants. The stainless steel was chosen because the last iteration of the project used stainless steel plates (which I was not on the design...
Frequency = 60 Hz, we want to maximize the capacitance so that we don't need to apply voltages higher than the power supply can generate. So Voltage must be less than or equal 20V. I'm fairly certain it is AC, the research specified a sinusoidal voltage, and I think that can only be done using...
I am developing a large scale capacitor to determine the effect of electric fields on tissue samples. The capacitor is a formed by two parallel plates (made of stainless steel), using an overlaping method to reduce edge effects. I am using a high permittivity material (foamglas) in between the...
