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Voltage-controlled surface wrinkling of elastomeric coatings
Daan van den Ende1, Jan-Dirk Kamminga, Arjen Boersma
1Holst Centre, HTC 31, 5656 AE, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. daan.vandenende@tno.nl
Advanced Materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
|May 25, 2013
Abstract:
Wrinkling of elastomeric coatings by an electric field is reported. The associated changes in the coating's optical properties yield switchable mirrors and windows. The field Ec needed to induce wrinkling is a factor of 4.4 lower than the theoretically predicted value, which is attributed to space-charge injection.
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