Electrostrictive polymers for mechanical energy harvesting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5385, Issue , 2004, Pages 17-28

  Liu, Yiming ^a   Ren, Kailiang ^a   Hofmann, Heath F ^a   Zhang, Qiming ^a,b  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial muscles; Electroactive polymers; Electrostrictive effects; Piezoelectric; Power generation and source

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES; ELECTROSTRICTIVE EFFECTS; ELECTROSTRICTIVE POLYMERS; MECHANICAL ENERGY HARVESTING;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; ELASTIC MODULI; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; MUSCLE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; POWER GENERATION;

POLYMERS;

EID: 8844272718     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.547133     Document Type: Conference Paper

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