Dielectric elastomer generators: How much energy can be converted?

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-41

  Koh, Soo Jin Adrian ^a,b   Keplinger, Christoph ^a,c   Li, Tiefeng ^d   Bauer, Siegfried ^c   Suo, Zhigang ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Dielectric materials; energy conversion; generators; modeling

Indexed keywords

A-PLANE; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRICAL BREAKDOWN; ELECTROMECHANICAL INSTABILITY; GENERATORS; HUMAN MOVEMENTS; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MATERIAL RUPTURE; MODELING; NATURAL RUBBER; OCEAN WAVES; RENEWABLE SOURCES; TWO DEGREES OF FREEDOM;

ELASTOMERS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; MECHANICS; PLASTICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RUBBER; WATER WAVES;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 78651363354     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2010.2089635     Document Type: Article

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