Designing components using smartMOVE™ electroactive polymer technology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6927, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Rosenthal, Marcus ^a   Weaber, Chris ^a   Polyakov, Ilya ^a   Zarrabi, Al ^a   Gise, Peter ^a  

^a Artificial Muscle Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial Muscle; Auto focus actuator; Bias mechanism; Dielectric elastomer; Electroactive polymer; Linear actuators; Proportional valve; SmartMOVE

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE; AUTO-FOCUS ACTUATOR; BIAS MECHANISM; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER; LINEAR ACTUATORS; PROPORTIONAL VALVE;

ACTUATORS; CAMERAS; ELASTOMERS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; MOBILE PHONES; OPTIMIZATION;

INTELLIGENT MATERIALS;

EID: 44349104300     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.782124     Document Type: Conference Paper

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