Complaint liquid metal electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9056, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Finkenauer, Lauren R ^a   Majidi, Carmel ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dielectric elastomer actuator; flexible electronics; soft robotics

Indexed keywords

CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; ELASTOMERS; ELECTROACTIVE POLYMER ACTUATORS; ELECTROSTATIC ACTUATORS; FABRICATION; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; GALLIUM ALLOYS; INDIUM ALLOYS; LIQUID METALS; PLASTICS;

COMPLIANT ELECTRODES; CONDUCTIVE ELASTOMERS; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER ACTUATORS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; MECHANICAL RESISTANCE; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SOFT ROBOTICS; VOLTAGE REQUIREMENT;

ELECTRODES;

EID: 84905569786     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2049112     Document Type: Conference Paper

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