The effectiveness of a piezoelectric bimorph to perform mechanical work against various spring-type loads

Ferroelectrics

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 241-252

  Smits, Jan G ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

effectiveness; electromechanical energy transfer; energy; performance; piezoelectric bimorph; work

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042398805     PISSN: 00150193     EISSN: 15635112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00150199108008248     Document Type: Article

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