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Untethered Feel‐Through Haptics Using 18‐µm Thick Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Vito Cacucciolo, Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu

Head‐mounted displays for virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) allow users to see highly realistic virtual worlds. The wearable haptics that enable feeling and touching these virtual objects are typically bulky, tethered, and provide only low fi ...

2020

Low voltage fast dielectric elastomer actuators

Xiaobin Ji

This thesis contributes to the field of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs). DEAs are electrostatically driven soft actuators that are fast, capable of generating large actuation strains, high forces, and present high power density. A wide range of appli ...

EPFL2019

Triboelectric‐TFT Flip‐Flop for Bistable Latching of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Danick Briand, Herbert Shea, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Alexis Pierre Henri Marette, Xiaobin Ji, Ronan Julien Hinchet

A high‐voltage flip‐flop combining two self‐powered soft sensors with a flexible high‐voltage thin film transistor (HVTFT) is reported, and is used to electrically latch dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) in zero and high‐strain states. Two touch‐actuat ...

2019

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

Yves Perriard, Herbert Shea, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Matthias Imboden, Xinru Ji, Vito Cacucciolo, Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu

Insects are a constant source of inspiration for roboticists. Their compliant bodies allow them to squeeze through small openings and be highly resilient to impacts. However, making subgram autonomous soft robots untethered and capable of responding intell ...

2019

Overhauser effects in non-conducting solids at 1.2 K

Aurélien Bornet, Sami Jannin, Basile Vuichoud, Marc Anthony Caporini, Xiaobin Ji

Academic Press Inc - Elsevier Science2018

Stretchable composite monolayer electrodes for low voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Xiaobin Ji, Francesca Sorba

2018

Soft tunable diffractive optics with multifunctional transparent electrodes enabling integrated actuation

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Xiaobin Ji

We present a stretchable tunable transmission grating in which the optical surface serves simultaneously as an electrode for electrostatic actuation. Tunable optics based on elastomers allow for a large tuning range, but integrating an actuator generally s ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2016