A review of high voltage drive amplifiers for capacitive actuators

Proceedings of the Universities Power Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Huang, Lina ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a   Andersen, Michael A E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

capacitive actuator; DEAP actuator; driver; high voltage; linear amplifier; piezoelectric actuator; review; switched mode amplifier

Indexed keywords

DRIVER; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; HIGH VOLTAGE; HIGH VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHED MODE AMPLIFIERS;

ELECTRICITY; REVIEWS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS;

EID: 84872857089     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UPEC.2012.6398576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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