Ekkehard Schade received the Dipl.-Ing. in physics from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 1964 and 1968, respectively. His thesis was on the energy transport in high-pressure cascade arcs.
Since 1968, he has been with the ABB Corporate Research Center, Baden-Daettwil, Switzerland in various research and leading positions. Currently, he is a consultant for ABB Corporate Research, Baden, Switzerland.
Dr. Schade is member of the Current Zero Club, of
the Permanent Scientific Committee of the ISDEIV (PISC), of the German
Physical
Society and of the International Organizing Committee of the
International
Conference on Gas Discharges and their Application.
The
research interests of Dr. Schade include the physics of high current
arcs in metal vapor (vacuum arcs) and as well as gas arcs, as found in
switching devices. It concerns especially the behavior of high current
vacuum
arcs, and the physical phenomena of the current interruption process as
well as
of the recover dielectric strength.
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