An auxiliary capacitor based ultra-fast drive circuit for shear piezoelectric motors

Shear piezoelectric motors frequently require large voltage changes on very short time scales. Since piezos behave electrically as capacitors, this requires a drive circuit capable of quickly sourcing or sinking a large amount of current at high voltages. Here we describe a novel circuit design usin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chatterjee, Kamalesh, Boyer, Michael C., Wise, W. D., Hudson, Eric
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Institute of Physics 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51721