Study of the Behavior of Water Droplets under the Influence of a Uniform Electric Field on Samples of Borosilicate Glass

This paper investigates the behavior of water droplets on the surface of borosilicate glass samples. Borosilicate glass is used in MEMS and this is due to its special properties, such as its excellent insulating property, its inertness to most chemical substances, its easy connection to silicon and its optical permeability. In this paper, water droplet conductivities and wet etched borosilicate glass samples– are investigated. It seems that droplet conductivity plays a dominant role in determining the flashover voltage of the aforementioned samples.