DEIS
Dielectrics
and
Electrical Insulation
Society
and
Electrical Insulation
Society
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General
The pages with Question marks are meant for quick information on various aspects of the Society and these Web pages. These may be browsed by many who are not necessarily involved with the technical fields of dielectrics and electrical insulation.The name
Even though the Jesuit Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia is sponsoring this WWW effort, do not misinterpret the letters "DEI": there is no similarity with "Agnus Dei", even though researchers sometimes move like a flock of sheep. Dielectrics, the "D", covers an area of interest on the edge of physics, chemistry, and materials engineering, and has to do with the behavior of materials in electric fields. Oversimplifying, those materials that do not, or just barely, conduct electricity are dielectric materials. Those who work in the field of electrical insulation (the "EI") apply results from dielectrics, and much more, to design and they study materials and systems that can be used in practice. Examples range from the low-voltage cable attached to the computer with which you are reading this, to very high voltages and power levels in electrical power plants, and at the other extreme, to the very small dielectric layers needed in integrated circuits - the essential parts in your computer. In short, "DEIS" is the Dielectrics
and Electrical Insulation Society, one of the societies that is organized
under the IEEE, and "TDEI" is the abbreviation
for the Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical
Insulation, which is pubished by the DEIS.
The WWW browser
These Transactions pages can be viewed with the Netscape and other browsers, on all systems and platforms where Netscape will run, including all Unix and Linux systems, the various Windows (NT, W95/98) systems, many mainframes (e.g. Vax) and also on the newer Mac machines.
With older viewers, the pages may not come out properly, e.g. by
losing the background, misalignment of tabular material, etc. In
contrast to normal manuscript printing, where everyone sees exactly
the same image of a given page of the journal, in WWW the reader's
browser has final control over details in the appearance. This is
very unfortunate, because it hampers correct display of mathematical
material, and the special fonts and symbols that are common in
technical manuscripts are lost or distorted.
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Last update: 12 June 2003