Increasing efficiency, speed, and responsivity of vanadium dioxide based photothermally driven actuators using single-wall carbon nanotube thin-films

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 4371-4378

  Wang, Tongyu ^a   Torres, David ^a   Fernández, Félix E ^b   Green, Andrew J ^c   Wang, Chuan ^a   Sepùlveda, Nelson ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon nanotubes; microactuators; photoactuators; thin films; vanadium dioxide

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CARBON; CARBON FILMS; CARBON NANOTUBES; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ABSORPTION; FILMS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROACTUATORS; PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS; STRAIN ENERGY; THIN FILMS; VANADIUM; YARN;

ACTUATOR PERFORMANCE; ACTUATOR TECHNOLOGY; EFFECTIVE APPROACHES; EFFECTIVE YOUNG'S MODULUS; LOW PHASE TRANSITION TEMPERATURES; PHOTOACTUATORS; STRAIN ENERGY DENSITY; VANADIUM DIOXIDE;

SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES (SWCN);

EID: 84928969720     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b00873     Document Type: Article

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