Ferroelectrets: Soft Electroactive Foams for Transducers
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- 1 February 2004
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics Today
- Vol. 57 (2) , 37-43
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1688068
Abstract
After certain cellular polymers are internally charged, they behave like soft and sensitive piezoelectrics that can be used to interconvert acoustical or mechanical signals and electrical signals.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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