Investigation of Time Effect on Resistivity Variation of 10 MeV Electron Beam Irradiated LDPE and HDPE

Charges occur in both the physical and/or chemical nature and concentration of defects in the crystalline region, and traps at chain fold-amorphous interfaces. In this work attempt has bean made to investigate the time effect on the variation of surface and volume resistivity of the LDPE and HDPE samples were irradiated under the 10 MeV electron beam of Rhodotron accelerator. In fact, the aim was to investigate these variations during about one mount after irradiation which is changing due to the charge storage in the polyethylene. The samples were prepared in sheet form with the thickness of 0.6±0.1 mm and irradiated at the dose range of 70 to 370 kGy. All the samples were kept at room temperature in laboratory. The results show an increment at about 25 days after irradiation in surface resistivity and decreasing later on for all the samples. The results of volume resistivity measurements didn't show any significant variation