Electrostrictive PVDF-TrFE Thin Film Actuators for the Control of Adaptive Thin Shell Reflectors

Electrostrictive PVDF-TrFE Thin Film Actuators for the Control of Adaptive Thin Shell Reflectors

This paper presents the technology to control the shape of thin polymer doubly curved shell structures with a unimorph layer of strain actuators to achieve high quality, light-weight, foldable space reflectors. The selected active material is PVDF-TrFE deposited by spin coating; it is electrostricti...

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Main Authors: Kainan Wang, Thomas Godfroid, Damien Robert, André Preumont
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-07-01
Series:Actuators
Subjects:
shape control
space reflector
electrostrictive material
piezoelectric polymer
PVDF-TrFE
thin film
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/9/3/53

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