New electrode materials for dielectric elastomer actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yuan, Wei ^a   Lam, Tuling ^a   Biggs, James ^b   Hu, Liangbing ^a   Yu, Zhibin ^a   Ha, Soonmok ^a   Xi, Dongjuan ^a   Senesky, Matthew K ^b   Grüner, George ^a   Pei, Qibing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Artificial Muscle Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Conductive polymer; Dielectric breakdown; Self clearing; Single wall carbon nanotube

Indexed keywords

BIOMIMETIC ROBOTS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS ACTUATORS; LARGE AREA ACTUATORS; SELF CLEARING;

BIOMIMETICS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DIELECTRIC FILMS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; POLYMER FILMS; RELIABILITY; ROBOTS; SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

ACTUATORS;

EID: 35148857599     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715383     Document Type: Conference Paper

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