Energy Based Efficiency of Mechanized Solid-State Actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5056, Issue , 2003, Pages 319-329

  Joo, Jinyong ^a   Sanders, Brian ^a   Washington, Gregory ^b   Adams, Jason ^b  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Loaded efficiency; Solid State Actuators; Unloaded efficiency

Indexed keywords

COUPLINGS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY TRANSFER; LOADS (FORCES); PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SOLID STATE DEVICES;

SOLID-STATE ACTUATORS;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 0242636187     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483447     Document Type: Conference Paper

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