Photostrictive actuators

Mechatronics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 467-487

  Poosanaas, Patcharin ^a   Tonooka, Kazuhiko ^b   Uchino, Kenji ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; LEAD COMPOUNDS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

PHOTOSTRICTIVE ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0033736939     PISSN: 09574158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4158(99)00073-2     Document Type: Article

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