Piezoelectric and Electrostrictive Polymer Actuators: Fundamentals

Biomedical Applications of Electroactive Polymer Actuators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 317-334

  Li, Zhimin ^a   Cheng, Zhongyang ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electroactive polymers (EAPs); Electromechanical (E M) effect; Electrostrictive effect; Hook's law; Isotropic polymer; Microelectromechanical systems nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS NEMS); Neumann's principle; Piezoelectric and electrostrictive polymer actuators; Piezoelectric coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953164300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744697.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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