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A microactuator made from poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF), a piezoelectric polymer, was fabricated to control the gas flow rate through a glass micronozzle. The actuator was formed by gluing together two PVDF sheets with opposite polarization directions. ...
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The miniaturization of dielectric elastomer actuators requires compliant electrodes that are clean, reliable, and that can be easily patterned on a mm or μm scale. Carbon-based electrodes, which are commonly used to make large-scale actuators, are not well ...
The goal of the project is to explore the possibility of controlling the speed of the actuator’s moving part without using any sensor. The speed has to be set accordingly to the position of the moving part at specific time. This dependency is fixed and is ...
An Implantable delivery device comprising at least a body (1), an inlet (2 17 46) and an outlet (3 18 47) and actuating means, wherein the actuating means comprise at least an actuator displacing a piston (6 21 32) in a rotating cylinder (4 19 31) forming ...
Laser annealing of shape memory alloy thin films provides new opportunities in actuator design and fabrication for microelectromechanical systems applications. In this paper, we present a three-dimensional thermal model to simulate the crystallization proc ...
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In this paper, we have designed a bistable microelectromechanical switch for an implantable lead electrode multiplexer application. Fabrication is based on a single mask process. State changes require an 18 V pulse to the actuators consuming only 0.2 nJ en ...
One of the key factors to obtain large displacements and high efficiency with dielectric electroactive polymer (DEAPs) actuators is to have compliant electrodes. Attempts to scale DEAPs down to the mm or micrometer range have encountered major difficulties ...