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17 September 2009 Cryogenic piezoelectric actuators
Xiaoning Jiang, William B. Cook, Wesley S. Hackenberger
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Abstract
In 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 x 10 mm and the height of 50 mm were assembled using 10 mm x 10 mm x 0.15 mm PMN-PT plates. These actuators showed stroke of 65 - 85 μm at 150 V at room temperature, and > 30 μm stroke at 77 K. Flextensional actuators with dimension of 10 mm x 5 mm x 7.6 mm showed stroke of > 50 μm at room temperature at driving voltage of 150 V. A flextensional stack actuator with dimension of 10 mm x 5 mm x 47 mm showed stroke of ~ 285 μm at 150 V at room temperature, and > 100 μm at 77K under driving of 150 V should be expected. The large cryogenic stroke and high precision of these actuators are promising for cryogenic optics applications.
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Xiaoning Jiang, William B. Cook, and Wesley S. Hackenberger "Cryogenic piezoelectric actuators", Proc. SPIE 7439, Astronomical and Space Optical Systems, 74390Z (17 September 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.826341
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KEYWORDS
Actuators

Crystals

Cryogenics

Capacitance

Dielectrics

Finite element methods

Prototyping

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