A circuit to model the electrical behavior of an ionic polymer-metal composite

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 338-350

  Bonomo, Claudia ^b   Fortuna, Luigi ^a,b   Giannone, Pietro ^b   Graziani, Salvatore ^b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuators; Electrical model; Ionic polymer metal composite (IPMC); Nonlinear lumped parameter circuit

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC PROPERTIES; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMERS;

ELECTRICAL MODEL; IONIC POLYMER-METAL COMPOSITE (IPMC); NONLINEAR LUMPED PARAMETER CIRCUIT;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 33745816283     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.856042     Document Type: Article

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