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Today automotive industry is demanding more and more compact solutions for embedded electronics to be interfaced with vehicles components such as motor drivers, igniters and car communication buses. That is why Smart Power Integrated Circuits (IC) have bee ...

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A silk-fibroin-based transparent triboelectric generator suitable for autonomous sensor network

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang

In recent years, a new electriﬁcation-based mechanism called triboelectric generator (TEG) has been demonstrated as a stable and renewable power source to convert ambient energy into remarkable electrical output. Various TEG conﬁgurations have been propose ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Evaluation of thermal scanning probe lithography patterns

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2016

Penciling A Triboelectric Power Source On Paper

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We present a novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a paper-Teflon configuration fabricated by an easy and cost-efficient process. Carbon electrodes were hand-drawn by means of a graphite pencil on commercial paper cards, and the conductivity wa ...

Ieee2016

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

Dielectric elastomer generators that stack up

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft dielectric elastomer power generator with a volume of less than 1 cm3. The generator is well suited to harvest energy from ambient and from human body motion as it can harvest from low frequ ...

Institute of Physics2015

Charging and Discharging at the Nanoscale: Fermi Level Equilibration of Metallic Nanoparticles

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo, Manuel Alejandro Méndez Agudelo, Micheal Diarmaid Scanlon, Evgeny Smirnov

The redox properties of metallic nanoparticles are discussed, in particular the relationships between excess charge, size and the Fermi level of the electrons. The redox potentials are derived using simple electrostatic models to provide a straightforward ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Stack design for portable artificial muscle generators: is it dangerous to be short and fat?

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

Dielectric elastomer generators (DEG) are suited for harvesting energy from low frequency and high strain natural sources including wind, wave and human movement. The stack configuration, for instance, in which a number of layers of DE membrane are placed ...

2014

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