Extending applications of dielectric elastomer artificial muscle

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6524, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chiba, Seiki ^a   Waki, Mikio ^b   Kornbluh, Roy ^a   Pelrine, Ron ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Hyper Drive Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomers; Electroactive polymer artificial muscle; Generators; Loudspeakers; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; DIAPHRAGMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; LOUDSPEAKERS; STANDARDIZATION;

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

MUSCLE;

EID: 35148882486     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.728671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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