%0 Journal Article %T Contribution to the Percolation Threshold Study of Silicon Carbide Filled Polydimethylsiloxane Composites Used For Field Grading Application %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %+ Université de Montpellier (UM) %+ Laboratoire Universitaire des Sciences Appliquées de Cherbourg (LUSAC) %+ Schneider Electric ( SE) %A Metz, Renaud %A Merini, Hocine %A Reboul, Jean-Michel %A Bantignies, Jean-Louis %A Hassanzadeh, Mehrdad %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1876-990X %J Silicon %I Springer %V 15 %P 5297–5305 %8 2023 %D 2023 %R 10.1007/s12633-023-02424-4 %K Silicon Carbide %K Silicone %K Nonlinear composite materials %K Field grading material %Z Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci]Journal articles %X Nonlinear V-I characteristics of particulate composite prepared from dispersion of silicon carbide in a siloxane elastomer have been measured as a function of filler concentration up to the maximum allowable of about 32 vol.%. Two critical concentrations (percolation thresholds) are obtained at volume fractions of about 17 and 24 vol.% for low and high electric fields. These values are consistent with the critical concentrations predicted by the theory: 14 and 31 vol.% respectively and may come from edge and face contacts between SiC semi-conducting particles. %G English %2 https://hal.science/hal-04118312/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-04118312/file/latest.pdf %L hal-04118312 %U https://hal.science/hal-04118312 %~ CNRS %~ L2C %~ COMUE-NORMANDIE %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UNICAEN %~ LUSAC %~ UM-2015-2021 %~ UM-EPE