Piezoactuators for 'real-world' applications can they deliver sufficient displacement?

Power Engineering Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 105-110

  King, Tim ^a   Pozzi, Michèle ^b   Manara, Angelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b ABB   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

MICROPOSITIONING SYSTEMS; PIEZOACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0034206206     PISSN: 09503366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/pe:20000303     Document Type: Article

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