Current leakage performance of dielectric elastomers under different boundary conditions

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 15, 2015, Pages

  Lu, Tongqing ^a   Shi, Zhibao ^a   Chen, Zhiqiang ^a   Huang, He ^a   Wang, T J ^a  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; PLASTICS; TRANSDUCERS;

CRITICAL ELECTRIC FIELD; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMER TRANSDUCERS; DIFFERENT BOUNDARY CONDITION; DISSIPATIVE MECHANISMS; ELECTRIC FIELD CURVES; ELECTRO-MECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; EQUIVALENT RESISTIVITY; HIGH ENERGY DENSITIES;

ELASTOMERS;

EID: 84944185291     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4933173     Document Type: Article

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