Investigation of electrical to mechanical energy conversion of a three-dimensional four-electrode multidirectional-controllable IPMC transducer with/without an optical fiber enclosed

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Feng, Guo Hua ^a   Tsai, Jen Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTROL CAPABILITIES; CONVERSION FACTOR; CURRENT FLOWING; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; METAL ELECTRODES; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; POLYMER-METAL COMPOSITE; POWER CONSUMPTION; SQUARE WAVES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D);

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRANSDUCERS;

FIBERS;

EID: 79951662570     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/1/015027     Document Type: Article

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