Combined driving and sensing circuitry for dielectric elastomer actuators in mobile applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7976, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Matysek, Marc ^a   Haus, Henry ^b   Moessinger, Holger ^b   Brokken, Dirk ^a   Lotz, Peter ^b   Schlaak, Helmut F ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dielectric elastomer actuator; HV generation; Mobile application; Sensing; Tactile display

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; HV GENERATION; MOBILE APPLICATION; SENSING; TACTILE DISPLAY;

CONDUCTING POLYMERS; DISPLAY DEVICES; ELASTOMERS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS; MICE (COMPUTER PERIPHERALS); MOBILE DEVICES; PLASTICS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SENSORS; USER INTERFACES;

ACTUATORS;

EID: 79955907713     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.879438     Document Type: Conference Paper

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