Energy harvesting cycles based on electro active polymers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7642, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Graf, Christian ^a   Maas, Jürgen ^a   Schapeler, Dirk ^b  

^a OSTWESTFALEN LIPPE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Formerly Baver Material Science AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomer; Energy harvesting; Harvesting cycles; Loss mechanisms; Power electronics

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RULES; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ENERGY GAIN; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; LOSS MECHANISMS; MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT; POWER GENERATORS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SMALL SCALE; TEST BENCHES; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

ACTUATORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; HARVESTING; PLASTICS; POLYMERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; RUBBER; WIND POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77953281297     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.853597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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