Improving adhesion of polypyrrole to gold for long-term actuation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5759, Issue , 2005, Pages 396-404

  Liu, Yingkai ^a   Gan, Qi ^a   Baig, Shermeen ^a   Smela, Elisabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Electroplating; Gold electrode; Lifetime; Polypyrrole (PPy)

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ADHESION; DELAMINATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROPLATING; GOLD; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACTUATION; ELECTRICAL STIMULATION; GOLD ELECTRODES; LIFETIME;

POLYPYRROLES;

EID: 25144452356     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.599753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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