Structural-property relations in a reduced and internally biased oxide wafer (RAINBOW) actuator material

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 79, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2041-2048

  Elissalde, Catherine ^a,c   Cross, L Eric ^a,b   Randall, Clive A ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CERMETS; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; PHASE COMPOSITION; REFRACTORY MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; THERMAL EXPANSION; TITANIUM OXIDES; ZIRCONIA;

COMPLEX VOLUME CHANGE; GRAIN BOUNDARY STRUCTURE; INTERGRANULAR FRACTURE; METALLIC LEAD PHASE; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMIC PHASE; REDUCED AND INTERNALLY BIASED OXIDE WAFER (RAINBOW) ACTUATORS; REFRACTORY OXIDES; TRANSGRANULAR FRACTURE;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0030216431     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.1996.tb08935.x     Document Type: Article

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