Bending and expanding motion actuators

Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical

Volumn 54, Issue 1-3, 1996, Pages 760-764

  Idogaki, Takaharu ^a   Tominaga, Takayuki ^a   Senda, Kouji ^a   Ohya, Nobuyuki ^a   Hattori, Tadashi ^a  

^a DENSO CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multilayer structures; Piezoelectric actuators

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042290981     PISSN: 09244247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0924-4247(97)80053-2     Document Type: Article

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