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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

3-dimensional electrode patterning within a microfluidic channel using metal ion implantation

Demetri Psaltis, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jae-Woo Choi, Muhamed Niklaus

The application of electrical fields within a microfluidic channel enables many forms of manipulation necessary for lab-on-a-chip devices. Patterning electrodes inside the microfluidic channel generally requires multi-step optical lithography. Here, we uti ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2010

Printing low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin

We demonstrate the fabrication of fully printed thin dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs), reducing the operation voltage below 300V while keeping good actuation strain. DEAs are soft actuators capable of strains greater than 100% and response times below ...

AIP American Institute of Physics2015

Taming the viscoelastic creep of dielectric elastomer actuators

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin

We present a simple open-loop method to suppress the viscoelastic drift of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs). Viscoelastic creep is one of the drawbacks of DEAs, especially when made with acrylic elastomer membranes (VHB). This leads to a time-dependen ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2019

Multifunctional shape memory electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators enabling high holding force and low-voltage multisegment addressing

David James McCoul, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Nadine Besse

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are an attractive form of electromechanical transducer, possessing high energy densities, an efficient design, mechanical flexibility, high speed, and noiseless operation. They have been incorporated into a variety of ...

Institute of Physics2016

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

Microactuators based on ion-implanted dielectric Electroactive Polymer Membranes (EAP)

Nico de Rooij, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

We report on the first ion-implanted dielectric electroactive polymer actuator that was successfully microfabricated and tested. Ion implantation is used to make the surface of the polymer locally conducting. Implanting the compliant electrodes solves the ...

2005

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

Large-Stroke Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Ion- Implanted Electrodes

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Muhamed Niklaus

In this paper, we present miniaturized polydimethyl- siloxane (PDMS)-based diaphragm dielectric elastomer actuators capable of out-of-plane displacement up to 25% of their diameter. This very large percentage displacement is made possible by the use of com ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2009

High-speed mechano-active multielectrode array for investigating rapid stretch effects on cardiac tissue

Herbert Shea, Matthias Imboden, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin

Systematic investigations of the effects of mechano-electric coupling (MEC) on cellular cardiac electrophysiology lack experimental systems suitable to subject tissues to in-vivo like strain patterns while simultaneously reporting changes in electrical act ...

Nature Research2019

Model and design of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

Fixing a prestretched dielectric elastomer actuator (DEA) on a flexible frame allows transformation of the intrinsic in-plane area expansion of DEAs into complex three-dimensional (3D) structures whose shape is determined by a configuration that minimizes ...

Institute of Physics2014

High-resolution, large-area fabrication of compliant electrodes via laser ablation for robust, stretchable dielectric elastomer actuators and sensors

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

A key element in stretchable actuators, sensors and systems based on elastomer materials are compliant electrodes. While there exist many methodologies for fabricating electrodes on dielectric elastomers, very few succeed in achieve high-resolution pattern ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

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

A highly versatile soft gripper that can handle an unprecedented range of object types is developed based on a new design of dielectric elastomer actuators employing an interdigitated electrode geometry, simultaneously maximizing both electroadhesion and e ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2016

An electroactive polymer energy harvester for wireless sensor networks

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft electroactive polymer power generator that has a volume of 1cm(3). The generator provides an opportunity to harvest energy from environmental sources to power wireless sensor networks becaus ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2013

Rollable Multisegment Dielectric Elastomer Minimum Energy Structures for a Deployable Microsatellite Gripper

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Volker Gass, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi, Muriel Richard

Debris in space presents an ever-increasing problem for spacecraft in Earth orbit. As a step in the mitigation of this issue, the CleanSpace One (CSO) microsatellite has been proposed. Its mission is to perform active debris removal of a decommissioned nan ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter based on dielectric elastomer actuation

Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Pietro Romano, Oluwaseun Adelowo Araromi

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

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

Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Mechanical Loading of 2D Cell Cultures

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Alexandre Poulin

We demonstrate the use of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) for mechanical stimulation of cells in vitro. The development of living tissues is regulated by their mechanical environment through the modification of fundamental cellular functions such as ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2016

Ion-implanted compliant electrodes used in dielectric electroactive polymer actuators with large displacement

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Muhamed Niklaus

Metal ion implantation is shown here as an effective technique to fabricate highly compliant electrodes at room temperature on polymer substrates. By implanting 5 keV gold ions in polydimethylsiloxane we have fabricated micron-scale electrodes that conduct ...

Elsevier Science, Reg Sales Off, Customer Support Dept, 655 Ave Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10010 Usa2009

Microstructure of 5 keV gold-implanted polydimethylsiloxane

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset, Muhamed Niklaus

The first high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (TEM) cross-section images of flexible electrodes fabricated by gold ion implantation at 5 keV into polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) are presented. A TEM sample preparation method based on cryoultramicr ...

Elsevier2008