Electrostatic and thermal segmentation of multi-segment IPMC sensor-actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7976, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Rossiter, Jonathan ^a   Mukai, Toshiharu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electro discharge machining; IPMC; Segmentation; Spark discharge

Indexed keywords

APPLIED PRESSURE; CONDUCTING MATERIALS; ELECTRO DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRODE MATERIAL; IONIC POLYMER METAL COMPOSITES; IPMC; MULTI-SEGMENT; SEGMENTATION; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SPARK DISCHARGE; WATER VAPORIZATION;

ABLATION; ACTUATORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ELECTRIC SPARKS; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; MACHINING; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS; SENSORS; TITANIUM;

ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 79955891344     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.880410     Document Type: Conference Paper

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