ELECTRIC CHARGE GENERATION MECHANISMS

The mechanisms amplifying the effects considered have been discussed. They include virtual mechanisms of electric charge generation on the screen surfaces and their accumulation. The “quasicapacitance effect” [30] can be related to these mechanisms, in which the charge generation is carried out according to the G. G. Thomson’s mechanism (1896) as well as according to the film thermal electromotive force mechanism [38] arising in thermally strongly differentiated superinsulation layers or according to the semiconductor surface charging mechanism as a result of interaction between the screens and the gas medium [39]. The electret basis of the screens (the PETF-DA-12 film is used in electric capacitors) at low temperatures allows to keep the accumulated charges during a very long time.

The general picture of the given oscillatory process of the parameters being investigated is fully regulated by the ratio between acceptor and donor gases in HIC as well as by the magnitude of relative gas inflow from the environment, by the magnitude of developed dimension-quantised film surface and by the surface’s Fermi level magnitude. It goes without saying that it is also assumed that the atmospheric medium with daily humidity and temperature variations is considered as the ambient environment.

2. EIHIS, EIHCIS, MADHM EFFECTS

The effects detected in the course of full-scale experiments [6,7] are as follows:

1. Effect of effusion induced hydrogen instability of the superinsulation (EIHIS),

2. Effect of effusion induced heat conduction instability of the superinsulation in
cryogenic and vacuum facilities (EIHCIS), 3. Effect of multiplication of the amount of desorbed hydrogen molecules (MADHM) in respect to the magnitude of the moist air inflowing molecules will allow to deeply understand the essence of phenomena occurring in foliated heat-insulating systems.