Studying insect motion with piezoelectric sensors

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6528, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Mika, Bartosz ^a   Lee, Hyungoo ^a   González, Jorge M ^b   Vinson, S Bradleigh ^b   Liang, Hong ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscope (AFM); Bending deformation; Insect locomotion; Piezoelectricity; Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF); Structure property relations of materials

Indexed keywords

BENDING DEFORMATION; INSECT LOCOMOTION; POLYVINYLIDENE FLUORIDE (PVDF); STRUCTURE-PROPERTY RELATIONS OF MATERIALS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INSECT CONTROL; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

SENSORS;

EID: 35548960491     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.715885     Document Type: Conference Paper

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