Electromechanical field concentrations near the electrode tip in partially poled multilayer piezo-film actuators

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Shindo, Yasuhide ^a   Narita, Fumio ^a   Hirama, Mitsuru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD CURVES; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL FIELDS; ELECTRODE TIP; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; MULTILAYER ACTUATORS; NON-LINEAR FINITE-ELEMENT ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; NUMERICAL PREDICTIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PIEZOELECTRIC FILM; POLING STATE;

ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; MULTILAYERS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 70350699375     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/18/8/085020     Document Type: Article

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