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Multimode Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Actuators for Wearable Haptics

Herbert Shea, Ronan Julien Hinchet, Edouard Franck Vincent Gustave Leroy

The sense of touch is underused in today’s virtual reality systems due to lack of wearable, soft, mm-scale transducers to generate dynamic mechanical stimulus on the skin. Extremely thin actuators combining both high force and large displacement are a long ...

Wiley2020

Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft

Herbert Shea, Caglar Ataman, Simon Dandavino, Daniel George Courtney, Subha Chakraborty

Microfabricated electrospray thrusters could revolutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1–100 kg). We present the modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of a new generation ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2014

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

Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

This article presents the design, fabrication, and characterization of a soft biomimetic robotic fish based on dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) that swims by body and/or caudal fin (BCF) propulsion. BCF is a promising locomotion mechanism that potenti ...

2018

LTCC integrated miniature Rb discharge lamp module for stable optical pumping in miniature atomic clocks and magnetometers

Herbert Shea, Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Vinu Lalgudi Venkatraman, Fabrizio Vecchio

We report here on an integrated mini-lamp module (15x26x4 mm3) with a microfabricated rf-powered Rb dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamp (10x10x3 mm3) positioned on top of a 0.6 mm thick (thickness adjustable) 4-layer LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Cera ...

IEEE2012

Dispensing and Hermetic Sealing Rb in a Miniature Reference Cell for Integrated Atomic Clocks

Herbert Shea, Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Vinu Lalgudi Venkatraman, Fabrizio Vecchio

An innovative method for filling and sealing the reference cell for a Rubidium (Rb) integrated atomic clock is presented. We used a simple, low-temperature solder sealing technique for producing mini-cells of the size of 12 x 10 x 2 mm, suitable for Rb min ...

Elsevier2011

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

Additive Manufacturing of Stretchable Zipping Electrostatic Actuators through Spray Encapsulation of a Frozen Liquid

Herbert Shea, Giulio Grasso

The fabrication of soft fluid-filled systems with mm or sub-mm scale features such as tuneable lenses, microfluidic tactile sensors, and electrohydraulic zipping actuators often relies on manual filling. This final step of injecting fluid limits throughput ...

Wiley2025

A Study of the Effects of Gamma Radiation on CMOS Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes

Edoardo Charbon, Herbert Shea, Cristiano Niclass, Marek Gersbach, Lucio Carrara, Noémy Scheidegger

The paper reports on the effects of Gamma radiation to single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study ever conducted on SPADs fabricated in CMOS technology. A typical CMOS SPAD consists of a pn junction revers ...

2008

DextrES: Wearable Haptic Feedback for Grasping in VR via a Thin Form-Factor Electrostatic Brake

Herbert Shea, Ronan Julien Hinchet

We introduce DextrES, a flexible and wearable haptic glove which integrates both kinesthetic and cutaneous feedback in a thin and light form factor (weight is less than 8g). Our approach is based on an electrostatic clutch generating up to 20 N of holding ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

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

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

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

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

Arrays of EAP micro-actuators for single-cell stretching applications

Herbert Shea, Samin Akbari

Mechanical stimuli are critical for the development and maintenance of most tissues such as muscles, cartilage, bones and blood vessels. The commercially available cell culture systems replicating the in vivo environment are typically based on simple membr ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering, Po Box 10, Bellingham, Wa 98227-0010 Usa2010

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

Soft Robotic Grippers

Dario Floreano, Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake, Vito Cacucciolo

Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented, covering different material sets, physical principles, and device archi ...

Wiley2018

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

Latchable microfluidic valve arrays based on shape memory polymer actuators

Herbert Shea, Nadine Besse, Bekir Aksoy

We report arrays of latching microfluidic valves based on shape memory polymers (SMPs), and show their applications as reagent mixers and as peristaltic pumps. The valve design takes advantage of the SMP's multiple stable shapes and over a hundred-fold sti ...

2019

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