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Message ID: 359     Entry time: Thu Jun 29 16:40:41 2017
 Author: Zach Type: Electronics Category: Modeling Subject: Accurate model and force profile

# 2017-06-29

• I created a much more accurate model of the current ESD setup from the technical drawings. My resulting ESD has dimensions of 21.3x24.3x.1mm with 1 mm spacings and 17.5 mm long electrode arms. The sample has a diameter of 75 mm and thickness of 1mm, the ESD is 1mm below the sample in the current model. I still have to compare the technical drawings to confirm that is the actual distance in the current lab setup.
• I was able to calculate the force profile on the disk from the ESD. COMSOL struggled to resolve the data with a small mesh size over the whole domain, so I created a region of extremely fine mesh around the ESD and the disk and then made the rest of the mesh size normal sized. Over the domain near the ESD my mesh size ranges from 2.5*10-3 to .25 mm and over the rest of the domain it's automatically setup at the normal size.
• The force on a single dipole is given as $F = (P \cdot \nabla)E$, since fused silica is isotropic it's polarization is proportional to E so $F = \chi_e \epsilon_0 \nabla (E^2)$. The electric suscepitibility of fused silica is 1.09, I plotted the profile of the force perpendicular to the plane of the disk and exported data files of the full vector quantity of the force for use with Matlab.

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