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Standards for dielectric elastomer transducers

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Claire Jean-Mistral

Dielectric elastomer transducers consist of thin electrically insulating elastomeric membranes coated on both sides with compliant electrodes. They are a promising electromechanically active polymer technology that may be used for actuators, strain sensors ...

Institute of Physics2015

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

A novel variable stiffness actuator composed of a dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) and a low-melting-point-alloy (LMPA) embedded silicone substrate is demonstrated. The device which we call variable stiffness dielectric elastomer actuator (VSDEA) enable ...

IEEE2015

Interfacing dielectric elastomer actuators with liquids

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Luc Maffli

Methods and materials for liquid encapsulation in thin (19 μm) silicone membranes are presented in this work. A set of 12 liquids including solvents, oils, silicone pre-polymers and one ionic liquid are experimentally tested. We show that all selected liqu ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2015

Towards a deployable satellite gripper based on multisegment dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Irina Gavrilovich

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) are an emerging actuation technology which are inherent lightweight and compliant in nature, enabling the development of unique and versatile devices, such as the Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structure (DEMES). ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter based on dielectric elastomer actuation

Herbert Shea, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Samuel Rosset, Pietro Romano

A very low-loss tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter driven by dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) is presented. The device consists of a fixed coplanar waveguide (CPW) and two metallic loading strips suspended on an elastomer membrane. The horizontal o ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Characterization of piezoelectric material for micro thermal harvesters

Paul Muralt, Emilie Catherine Sylviane Trioux

This paper presents the first realizations of a novel concept for thermal energy harvesting at micro scale. The devices proposed here are based on a two-step transduction combining thermo-mechanical and piezoelectric conversion. In this contribution, we pr ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2014

DEA-based deformable cell culture system

Herbert Shea, Cristina Martin Olmos, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Martha Liley

We present a deformable cell culture system based on dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA). Understanding how the mechanical environment can affect cells functions could lead to significant advances in diseases diagnosis and drug development. Most available ...

2014

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for soft-grasping

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Bryan Edward Schubert

We demonstrate here a configuration of soft actuator which has several features such as, being completely soft, simple, thin, foldable, and stretchable while having uni/bidirectional bending actuation. Theoretically the actuation can be extended to multidi ...

2013

Improved electromechanical behavior in castable dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samin Akbari

Non-viscoelastic castable elastomers are replacing the polyacrylate VHB films in the new generations of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) to achieve fast and reliable actuation. We introduce the optimum prestretch conditions to enhance the electromecha ...

American Institute of Physics2013

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Smart material

Standards for dielectric elastomer transducers

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

Interfacing dielectric elastomer actuators with liquids

Adaptive Millimeter-Wave and THz Antenna Devices Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Towards a deployable satellite gripper based on multisegment dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter based on dielectric elastomer actuation

Characterization of piezoelectric material for micro thermal harvesters

DEA-based deformable cell culture system

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for soft-grasping

Improved electromechanical behavior in castable dielectric elastomer actuators

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Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

Characterization of piezoelectric material for micro thermal harvesters

Dielectric Elastomer Actuators for soft-grasping

DEA-based deformable cell culture system

Standards for dielectric elastomer transducers

Interfacing dielectric elastomer actuators with liquids

Towards a deployable satellite gripper based on multisegment dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter based on dielectric elastomer actuation

Adaptive Millimeter-Wave and THz Antenna Devices Based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Improved electromechanical behavior in castable dielectric elastomer actuators