Transverse strain responses in the electrostrictive poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluorethylene) copolymer

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1901-1903

  Cheng, Z Y ^a   Xu, T B ^a   Bharti, Vivek ^a   Wang, Shexi ^a   Zhang, Q M ^a  

^a Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPOLYMERS; DILATOMETERS; ELECTROSTRICTION; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; POLYETHYLENES; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; VINYL RESINS;

TRANSVERSE STRAIN RESPONSE;

PLASTIC FILMS;

EID: 0032608179     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123707     Document Type: Article

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