Publications de Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

The NERD setup: assessing the life time of electrodes for dielectric elastomer transducers

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Samuel Schlatter, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

2018

High-cycle electromechanical aging of dielectric elastomer actuators with carbon-based electrodes

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Samuel Schlatter, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

We present high-cycle aging tests of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) based on silicone elastomers, reporting on the time-evolution of actuation strain and of electrode resistance over millions of cycles. We compare several types of carbon-based elect ...

Institute of Physics2017

Assessing the degradation of compliant electrodes for soft actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

We present an automated system to measure the degradation of compliant electrodes used in dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) over millions of cycles. Electrodes for DEAs generally experience biaxial linear strains of more than 10%. The decrease in elect ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Full integration of a dielectric elastomer actuator with a flexible 1 kV thin-film transistor

Danick Briand, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexis Pierre Henri Marette, Christine Anne de Saint-Aubin

2017