Liquid State Electronics of Insulating Liquids

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Provides fundamental knowledge and experimental techniques; Contains figures drawn exclusively for use in the text, thus providing the greatest amount of relevant information in each figure; Incorporates teaching and learning techniques gathered throughout the author's 25 years of experience in teaching and research; Includes reference sections at the end of each chapter Partial List of Contents * Physical and Chemical Properties of Nonpolar Liquids; o The Electronic Band Model; o Electron Statistics; o Electronic Carrier Transport; o The Liquid State; o The Liquid Structure; o Dielectric Properties; o Thermophysical Properties; o Production and Purification of Liquids; o Chemical Structure; * Measurement Methods; o Introduction; o Injection and Emission of Electrons, Holes, or Ions; o Clearing Field Methods; o AC Conductivity; o Time-Resolved Conductivity Methods; o Measurement of Hall Mobility; o Optical Absorption; o Electron Avalanches; o Breakdown Measurements; o Electron Pulses; o Signal Processing; o Measurement Cells; * Transport Properties of Charge Carriers; o Electron Drift Mobility; o Hall Mobility; o Positive Hole Transport; o Ion Mobility; o Charge Carrier Recombination; o Electron Attachment and Detachment; o Positive Charge Transfer; o Photodetachment from Negative Ions and Photo-Assisted Electron; Diffusion; o Optical Absorption of Localized Electrons and of Cations; o Geminate Electron/Ion Recombination; o Phenomenological Theory of Electron Transport; * Photoconductivity; o Single Photon-Induced Conductivity in Pure Liquids; o Single Photon Ionization of Solutes in Nonpolar Liquids; o Multiphoton Effects; o Onsager Theory; * Radiation-Induced Conductivity; o High Energy Radiation and Matter; o Low Field Conductivity; o High Field Conductivity; o Conductivity Induced by High LET Particles; o Multi-Ion Pair Theories; o Free Ion Yield, Low LET; o LET Dependence; o Positrons and Positronium; * Charge Transfer at Interfaces; o Introduction; o Photoelectric Effect in Nonpolar Liquids; o Ranges of Photoinjected Electrons; o Photoinduced Injection of Positive Charge Carriers; o Electron Emission from Liquids; o Field Emission of Electrons and Field Ionization; o Effects of Injection Currents; o 2D Electrons; o V0 Values; * Models of Electron Energetics and Dynamics; o Models of Electron Transport; o Electron Bubbles in Cryogenic Liquids; o Hole Transport; o Hot Electrons; o Thermalization Times of Hot Electrons; o Conduction Band Energy V0; o Ionic Polarization; o Ion Mobility; * Electric Breakdown; o Introduction; o Electron Avalanches; o High Field Conduction; o DC Breakdown; o Impulse Breakdown; o Laser-Induced Breakdown; * Liquid Ionization Detectors; o Liquid Ionization Chambers; o Electron Pulse Chambers; o Imaging Devices; o Liquid Photocathodes; o Scintillation; o Large Volume Detectors; o Electron Lifetime Measurements; o Positive Ions and High Radiation Dose; o Radiation Hardness; * Nonpolar Solids; o Solid Rare Gases and Simple Cryogenic Molecular Solids; o Organic Solids; o Polymers; o Concluding Remarks