TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kofod, Guggi
A1  - Mc Carthy, Denis N.
A1  - Krissler, Jan
A1  - Lang, Günter
A1  - Jordan, Grace
T1  - Electroelastic optical fiber positioning with submicrometer accuracy : model and experiment
N2  - We present accurate electromechanical measurements on a balanced push-pull dielectric elastomer actuator, demonstrating submicrometer accurate position control. An analytical model based on a simplified pure-shear dielectric elastomer film with prestretch is found to capture the voltage-displacement behavior, with reduced output due to the boundary conditions. Two complementary experiments show that actuation coefficients of 0.5-1 nm/V-2 are obtainable with the demonstrated device, enabling motion control with submicrometer accuracy in a voltage range below 200 V.
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://apl.aip.org/
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3134002
SN  - 0003-6951
ER  -