The Criteria for Interfacial Electro-Thermal Equilibrium
| dc.creator | Seaver, Albert E. | |
| dc.date | 2008-01-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:57:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:57:27Z | |
| dc.description | When the surface of a first material is brought into contact with the surface of a second material the contact region is called an interface. Since the time of James Clerk Maxwell it has been customary to treat a material electrically as having well-defined bulk properties and having surfaces of zero-thickness. In order to obtain a better understanding of the interface this paper reviews Maxwell's original argument to justify a zero-thickness-surface and reexamines the interface problem assuming electrical charges are actually particles having a finite thickness. Thermodynamics requires that in thermal equilibrium any movement of free charge cannot produce a net electrical current anywhere in the materials or across their interface. For materials in contact and in thermal equilibrium this reexamination gives a set of equations that can be called the interfacial electro-thermal equilibrium (IETE) criteria. A well-defined interfacial potential results from this criteria. | |
| dc.description | PDF, 17 pages, Paper was presented at the 2005 Electrostatics Society of America Annual Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 6/22-24/05 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4816 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4816 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/146976 | |
| dc.subject | Classical Physics | |
| dc.subject | General Physics | |
| dc.title | The Criteria for Interfacial Electro-Thermal Equilibrium | |
| dc.type | text |