Various non-resonant piezoelectric actuators have been emerged in recent decades and
they have been applied successfully in many industrial fields, such as medical apparatuses …

This paper provides a comprehensive review on the design and development of micro
displacement amplification mechanisms. Micro displacement amplification mechanisms are …

Flexure hinges hold several advantages over classical rotation joints, including no friction
losses, no need for lubrication, no hysteresis, compactness, capacity to be utilized in small …

Piezo-actuated, flexure hinge-based compliant mechanisms have been frequently used in
precision engineering in the last few decades. There have been a considerable number of …

In order to further understand the characteristics of displacement amplification of bridge-type
mechanism, specific analysis is presented in this paper. The average ideal displacement …

Multifarious flexure-based displacement amplifiers have been proposed and studied in the
past decades, showing importance in many industrial fields, such as bioengineering, optical …

This paper presents a novel compliant parallel XY micromotion stage driven by piezoelectric
actuators (PZT). With the purpose to obtain complete kinematic decoupling and good …

Micromanipulation is a hot topic due to its enabling role in various research fields. In order to
perform a high precision operation at a small scale, compliant mechanisms have been …

This study proposes a new mathematical model for the amplification ratio of a single-stair
bridge-type amplification mechanism. To overcome the limitations of previous models, all …

Bridge-type mechanism is one of the most widely used displacement amplifiers in micro
scale applications due to its compact and symmetrical structure. However, a drawback of the …