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Low-noise, frequency-agile photonic integrated lasers

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have revolutionized optical communication and precision metrology by enabling compact, scalable, and high-performance optical systems. However, conventional integrated laser sources suffer from limitations such as poor c ...

EPFL2025

A Soft Robotic Morphing Wing for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Mirko Kovac

Actuators based on soft elastomers offer significant advantages to the field of robotics, providing greater adaptability, improving collision resilience, and enabling shape-morphing. Thus, soft fluidic actuators have seen an expansion in their fields of ap ...

WILEY2024

Modeling and analysis of miniaturized magnetorheological valve for fluidic actuation

Sofia Lydia Ntella

Fluidic actuation enables movement in a wide range of mechanical systems, from simple laboratory devices to more complex industrial machinery. Fluids are used to generate motion of mechanical pieces. The term "fluids" encompasses two types of technologies: ...

EPFL2023

Rectilinear translation four-bar flexure mechanism based on four Remote Center Compliance pivots

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Quentin Gubler

This paper presents a novel planar four-bar linkage compliant mechanism (called 4-RCC) based on four flexure-based Remote Center of Compliance (RCC) pivots. With particular configurations and dimensions, the beam shortening of the RCC pivots can compensate ...

euspen2022

Cogno-Vest: A Torso-Worn, Force Display to Experimentally Induce Specific Hallucinations and Related Bodily Sensations

Olaf Blanke, Hannes Bleuler, Jevita Potheegadoo, Oliver Alan Kannape, Kenny Jeanmonod, Atena Fadaeijouybari

Recent advances in virtual reality and robotic technologies have allowed researchers to explore the mechanisms underlying bodily aspects of self-consciousness which are largely attributed to the multisensory and sensorimotor processing of bodily signals (b ...

2022

Energy Analysis of a Cardiac Assist Device based on Dielectric Elastomer Actuator through an Equivalent Electrical Circuit

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne, Francesco Clavica

Lumped parameter model and mock circulation loop are two tools commonly used in biomedical research to simulate cardiac system in order to study different assist devices. In this paper, a lumped parameter model is proposed to simulate a circulation loop. T ...

IEEE2021

Monolithic piezoelectric control of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Arslan Sajid Raja, Miles Henry Anderson, Tianyi Liu

High-speed actuation of laser frequency(1)is critical in applications using lasers and frequency combs(2,3), and is a prerequisite for phase locking, frequency stabilization and stability transfer among optical carriers. For example, high-bandwidth feedbac ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Artificial Muscles: Dielectric Elastomers Responsive to Low Voltages

Yauhen Sheima

The lack of soft high-dielectric-permittivity elastomers responsive to a low voltage has been a long-standing obstacle for the industrialization of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) technology. Here, elastomers that not only possess a high dielectric pe ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

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

Foil-Level Inkjet-Printed pyroMEMS Balloon Actuators: Fabrication, Modeling, and Validation

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez, David de Koninck

A cleanroom-free fabrication process adapted to microfluidic devices is presented for pyrotechnical microelectromechanical systems balloon actuators. The actuators are intended for on-chip pumping and fluid ejection to replace tabletop pumping solutions in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

PZT thin films for MEMS devices : from in-situ sputter deposition to energy harvesting device

Andrea Mazzalai

The recent progress in synthesis and integration of highly piezoelectric lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) thin films onto silicon substrates are paving the way for new, more efficient and faster devices in micro electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). In compariso ...

EPFL2014

Optimal design of a squeeze film actuator for friction feedback

Yves Perriard, Yoan René Cyrille Civet, Christophe Winter

Sense of touch belongs to one of the five Human Senses. Whereas blind people largely use feeling in everyday life, sighted person mainly focus on hearing and vision. However, haptic interface started being introduced in customers applications, such as smar ...

IEEE Computer Society2013

Optical Modulators Based on Microfabricated Tilting Flaps Operating at low Actuation Voltages

Fabio Jutzi

In this thesis the concept, modelling, design, fabrication process and characterization of novel optical modulators are presented. The devices consist of flaps exhibiting a large tilt with electrostatic actuation at low voltages. The applications comprise, ...

EPFL2012

Kalman Filter to Measure Position and Speed of a Linear Actuator

Yves Perriard, Miroslav Markovic, Joël Maridor

This paper presents a method to dynamically filter the position and the speed of a linear actuator during its closing. A previous paper presented position detection without external sensor but, by simply deriving it, the corresponding speed was not usable ...

IEEE2011

Large Hybrid High Precision MEMS Mirrors

Dara Zaman Bayat

This thesis presents the design and microfabrication technology of a tip-tilt, 2 degree of freedom "mirror system" made out of Silicon On Insulator (SOI) wafers with two movable mirrors that have diameter of 10 mm. The system was intended for precise beam ...

EPFL2011

Contactless rotational concentric microviscometer

Peter Ryser, Eric Meurville, Sigfried Strässler

We investigated the feasibility of a concentric rotational microviscometer which is actuated remotely. This type of sensor might find application in vivo as a passive implant. The heart of the sensor is a cylindrical rotor, actuated from a distance of up t ...

Elsevier2011

A Miniature Short Stroke Actuator and its Position Control for a Haptic Key

Yves Perriard, Grégory Savioz

This paper addresses the design and optimization of a small-sized linear electrodynamic actuator. This actuator is aimed to be inserted under a computer key in order to produce a force feedback to the user. Replacing the current rubber dome supporting the ...

2009

Micro-beamer based on MEMS micro-mirrors and laser light source

Maher Kayal, Laurent Fabre, Nicolas Abelé, Christophe Winter, Fabrizio Lo Conte

This paper presents a complete portable laser-based projection system using two one-dimensional magnetic actuated MEMS linear scanning micro-mirrors. Dedicated high speed electronics was developed to drive the MEMS, detect the mirror scanning position at a ...

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Novel tuning method for optofluidics

Demetri Psaltis, Wuzhou Song

We introduce a novel tuning mechanism for optofluidic devices by embedding pressure driven actuator inside microfluidic chips. Multiple tunable optofluidic devices remotely controlled by the pressure of air or liquid were demonstrated. ...

Ieee Service Center2009