Photogallery
Here
are some pictures of my experimental apparatus (1) and set up (2).
(1) 
(2)
(1) My
experimental apparatus. The large black box houses the dual-plate configuration
for sending high voltage through the particle fiber reinforced plastic (FRP)
that is being tested. The yellow meter sitting on top of the black box is measuring the voltage. The
high voltage power supply is high-lighted in red, and the Keithley
meter that is used to measure the current is high-lighted in blue. Because the
voltages being measured are so tiny (in the millivolt range), the meters are affected by stray
electric fields. Walking around the room or even standing in place and waving
your arms around causes the meter to fluctuate wildly, so the entire apparatus is
housed inside a Faraday cage.
(2) The
whole set up. The Keithley meter is connected to a
small computer device called a Beagle (see below, 3), after going through a
voltage biasing circuit