Development of a micro-gripper using piezoelectric bimorphs

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 5826-5840

  El Sayed, Amr M ^a,b   Abo Ismail, Ahmed ^b   El Melegy, Moumen T ^b   Azah Hamzaid, Nur ^a   Abu Osman, Noor Azuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

^b Assiut University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bimorph; Piezoelectric actuator

Indexed keywords

BIMORPH; DRIVING VOLTAGES; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; EXTERNAL ACTUATORS; HIGH VOLTAGE AMPLIFIER; MICRO MANIPULATION; PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPHS; RESPONSE PERFORMANCE;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; GRIPPERS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 84877684891     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130505826     Document Type: Article

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