Effects of surface and flexoelectricity on a piezoelectric nanobeam

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Liang, Xu ^a   Hu, Shuling ^a   Shen, Shengping ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

beam; electromechanical coupling; flexoelectricity; surface effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894234763     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/23/3/035020     Document Type: Article

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