Photoconductive high-voltage switches of thin-film amorphous silicon for EAP actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5051, Issue , 2003, Pages 412-418

  Lacour, Stéphanie Périchon ^a   Pelrine, Ron ^b   Wagner, Sigurd ^a   Prahlad, Harsha ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acrylic EAP; Amorphous silicon; High voltage; Matrix; Photoconductor

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; AMORPHOUS SILICON; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PHOTOCONDUCTIVITY; POLYIMIDES; THIN FILMS;

PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCHES;

ELECTRIC SWITCHES;

EID: 0242441934     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.484712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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