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Piezoelectric Actuator Designs
2008Piezoelectric actuators are getting immiscible parts of many important electromechanical and smart systems. Smart systems consist mainly of sensors, actuators, and signal processing units. Actuators are the responding units of many smart systems including those for active vibration and noise control, valve, shutter, focal lens, and many others ...
Dog?an A., Uzgur E.
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Actuation of a discontinuous structure with piezoelectric actuators
Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2008Abstract An alternate approach to exciting a one-dimensional structure with discontinuities using a piezoelectric actuator is presented and examined. Instead of being bonded to the uniform side of a beam, the piezoelectric actuator is attached such that it spans two adjacent rib discontinuities.
Jingdou Wang +3 more
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Piezoelectric Actuator Renaissance
Energy Harvesting and Systems, 2014Abstract “Politico-engineering” in the twenty-first century is generating “Piezoelectric Actuator Renaissance” in the area of sustainability and crisis technologies in particular. This paper reviews the recent advances in materials, designing concepts, and new applications of piezoelectric actuators and describes the future ...
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Review of Scientific Instruments, 2016
For the piezo-driven microgripper, one issue is to enlarge the grasping stroke and realize parallel grasping movement in the compact design. Piezoelectric stack actuator (PSA) and piezoelectric cantilever actuator (PCA) are two kinds of typical piezoelectric actuators. In this study, a novel microgripper hybrid driven by a PSA and two PCAs is proposed,
Weilin, Chen +2 more
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For the piezo-driven microgripper, one issue is to enlarge the grasping stroke and realize parallel grasping movement in the compact design. Piezoelectric stack actuator (PSA) and piezoelectric cantilever actuator (PCA) are two kinds of typical piezoelectric actuators. In this study, a novel microgripper hybrid driven by a PSA and two PCAs is proposed,
Weilin, Chen +2 more
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Piezoelectric Actuators Characterization
2012 International Conference on Industrial Control and Electronics Engineering, 2012This paper describes a system to drive piezoelectric actuators over more than one decade of voltages and one octave of frequencies, in order to perform high-speed complex impedance characterization at a user chosen voltage excitation level. This characterization provides information about electrical and mechanical characteristics of the device under ...
H. Meyer +6 more
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Piezoelectric actuators in micropositioning
Engineering Science & Education Journal, 2001Micromachines can be built only with the aid of other machines that have micropositioning abilities. Fast and precise positioning devices are needed to increase reliability and speed in the production of the miniaturized devices. Intensive research effort has been devoted to developing new technologies for actuators and sensors.
Pozzi M, King T
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On the Responsibility of Piezoelectric Actuator
Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 1987A kind of multilayer piezoelectric actuators were manufactured to be able to respond within 10∼100 µsec for pulse field, and examined the pulse responsibility. The response time might be rather strongly dependent on the sample conditions than both of driving voltage and generated strain.
Hiromitsu Fujii, Yasushi Ohnishi
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Piezoelectric microflextensional actuator
SPIE Proceedings, 2004This paper presents a novel micro flextensional actuator design consisting of bulk PZT bonded to a silicon microbeam. The fabrication process includes boron doping, EDP etching, dicing, and bonding to produce actuators with large displacements (8.7 μm) and gain factors (32) at 100V.
Jongpil Cheong +2 more
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Cryogenic piezoelectric actuators
SPIE Proceedings, 2009In this paper, PMN-PT single crystal piezoelectric stack actuators and flextensional actuators were designed, prototyped and characterized for space optics applications. Single crystal stack actuators with footprint of 10 mm x10 mm and the height of 50 mm were assembled using 10 mm x10mm x0.15mm PMN-PT plates.
Xiaoning Jiang +2 more
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A study on the piezoelectric actuation performance of prestressed piezoelectric unimorph actuators
Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 2014The actuation performances of the prestressed piezoelectric unimorph actuators piezoelectric unimorph with mechanically prestressed substrate and thin layer unimorph driver are evaluated in terms of actuation displacement and force. During the performance tests, these prestressed piezoelectric unimorph actuators showed highly nonlinear behavior, in ...
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