Contractile folded dielectric elastomer actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Carpi, F ^a   De Rossi, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Actuator; Contractile; Dielectric elastomer; Electroactive polymer; Folded

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELASTOMERS; ROBOTICS;

BIOMEDICAL DISCIPLINES; DEVICE ARCHITECTURES; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 35148850551     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715594     Document Type: Conference Paper

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