our Peer-reviewed DEA papers

2025

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

G. Grasso; S. Rosset; H. Shea

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2025. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202401739.

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2024

Soft Monolithic Shielded Sensors to Measure Shear and Normal Forces for Local Slip Detection

B. Aksoy; K. M. Digumarti; H. Shea

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2024. DOI : 10.1002/admt.202400486.

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2023

Electrode Impact on the Electrical Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Thin Films

B. Fasolt; F. B. Albuquerque; J. Hubertus; G. Schultes; H. Shea et al.

Polymers. 2023. Vol. 15, num. 20, p. 4071. DOI : 10.3390/polym15204071.

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Fully 3D-Printed, Stretchable, and Conformable Haptic Interfaces

G. Grasso; S. Rosset; H. Shea

Advanced Functional Materials. 2023. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202213821.

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2022

Shielded soft force sensors

B. Aksoy; Y. Hao; G. Grasso; K. M. Digumarti; V. Cacucciolo et al.

Nature Communications. 2022. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 4649. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-32391-0.

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The Integration of Optical Stimulation in a Mechanically Dynamic Cell Culture Substrate

M. Imboden; S. Chen; O. Gudozhnik; C. Pollock; J. Javor et al.

Frontiers In Bioengineering And Biotechnology. 2022. Vol. 10, p. 934756. DOI : 10.3389/fbioe.2022.934756.

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Multistable shape programming of variable-stiffness electromagnetic devices

B. Aksoy; H. Shea

Science Advances. 2022. Vol. 8, num. 21, p. eabk0543. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.abk0543.

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2021

Influence of electric field, temperature, humidity, elastomer material, and encapsulation on the lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) under DC actuation

F. B. Albuquerque; H. Shea

Smart Materials And Structures. 2021. Vol. 30, num. 12, p. 125022. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/ac3433.

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Geometric optimization of dielectric elastomer electrodes for dynamic applications

E. Garnell; B. Aksoy; C. Rouby; H. Shea; O. Doare

Applied Acoustics. 2021. Vol. 181, p. 108120. DOI : 10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108120.

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Automated test setup to quantify the lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators under a wide range of operating conditions

D. Kuhnel; F. Beco Albuquerque; V. Py; H. Shea

Smart Materials And Structures. 2021. Vol. 30, num. 6, p. 065020. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/abfb85.

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Editorial: Soft Robotics Based on Electroactive Polymers

G. Gu; H. Shea; S. Seelecke; G. Alici; G. Rizzello

Frontiers In Robotics And Ai. 2021. Vol. 8, p. 676406. DOI : 10.3389/frobt.2021.676406.

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2020

Untethered Feel‐Through Haptics Using 18‐µm Thick Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

X. Ji; X. Liu; V. Cacucciolo; Y. R. C. Civet; A. El Haitami et al.

Advanced Functional Materials. 2020. Vol. 30, num. 41, p. 1 – 10, 2006639. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202006639.

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Influence of humidity, temperature and prestretch on the dielectric breakdown strength of silicone elastomer membranes for DEAs

F. B. Albuquerque; H. Shea

Smart Materials And Structures. 2020. Vol. 29, num. 10, p. 105024. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/aba5e3.

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Inkjet Printing of Complex Soft Machines with Densely Integrated Electrostatic Actuators

S. Schlatter; G. Grasso; S. Rosset; H. Shea

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2020. p. 2000136. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202000136.

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Reconfigurable and Latchable Shape‐Morphing Dielectric Elastomers Based on Local Stiffness Modulation

B. Aksoy; H. Shea

Advanced Functional Materials. 2020. p. 1 – 11, 2001597. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202001597.

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2019

An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

X. Ji; X. Liu; V. Cacucciolo; M. Imboden; Y. Civet et al.

Science Robotics. 2019. Vol. 4, num. 37, p. eaaz6451. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aaz6451.

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

A. Marette; R. I. Haque; X. Ji; R. Hinchet; H. R. Shea et al.

Advanced Electronic Materials. 2019. p. 1900205. DOI : 10.1002/aelm.201900205.

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

M. Imboden; E. de Coulon; A. Poulin; C. Dellenbach; S. Rosset et al.

Nature Communications. 2019. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 834. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-08757-2.

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Latchable microfluidic valve arrays based on shape memory polymer actuators

B. Aksoy; N. Besse; R. J. Boom; B-J. Hoogenberg; M. Blom et al.

Lab on a Chip. 2019. Vol. 19, num. 4, p. 608 – 617. DOI : 10.1039/C8LC01024B.

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2018

An ultra-fast mechanically active cell culture substrate

A. Poulin; M. Imboden; F. Sorba; S. Grazioli; C. Martin-Olmos et al.

Scientific Reports. 2018. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 9895. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-27915-y.

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Stretchable composite monolayer electrodes for low voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

X. Ji; A. El Haitami; F. Sorba; S. Rosset; G. Nguyen et al.

SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL. 2018. Vol. 261, p. 135 – 143. DOI : 10.1016/j.snb.2018.01.145.

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Yttrium zinc tin oxide high voltage thin film transistors

A. Marette; H. R. Shea; D. Briand

Applied Physics Letters. 2018. Vol. 113, num. 13, p. 132101. DOI : 10.1063/1.5048992.

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2017

Understanding Graphics on a Scalable Latching Assistive Haptic Display Using a Shape Memory Polymer Membrane

N. Besse; S. Rosset; J. J. Zarate; E. Ferrari; L. Brayda et al.

IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 2017. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 30 – 38. DOI : 10.1109/TOH.2017.2767049.

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Flexible Zinc-Tin Oxide Thin Film Transistors Operating at 1 kV for Integrated Switching of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators Arrays

A. P. H. Marette; A. Poulin; N. Besse; S. Rosset; D. Briand et al.

Advanced Materials. 2017. p. 1700880. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201700880.

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Flexible Active Skin: Large Reconfigurable Arrays of Individually Addressed Shape Memory Polymer Actuators

N. Besse; S. Rosset; J. J. Zarate; H. Shea

Advanced Materials Technologies. 2017. p. 1700102. DOI : 10.1002/admt.201700102.

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Assessing the degradation of compliant electrodes for soft actuators

S. Rosset; C. De Saint-Aubin; A. Poulin; H. Shea

Review of Scientific Instruments. 2017. Vol. 88, num. 10, p. 105002. DOI : 10.1063/1.4989464.

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

C. De Saint-Aubin; S. Rosset; S. Schlatter; H. Shea

Smart Materials and Structures. 2017. Vol. 27, num. 7, p. 074002. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/aa9f45.

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Inkjet 3D printing of UV and thermal cure silicone elastomers for dielectric elastomer actuators

D. McCoul; S. Rosset; S. Schlatter; H. Shea

Smart Materials and Structures. 2017. Vol. 26, num. 12, p. 125022. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/aa9695.

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2016

Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Mechanical Loading of 2D Cell Cultures

A. Poulin; C. Saygili Demir; S. Rosset; T. Petrova; H. Shea

Lab on a Chip. 2016. Vol. 16, num. 19, p. 3788 – 3794. DOI : 10.1039/C6LC00903D.

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Versatile soft grippers with intrinsic electroadhesion based on multifunctional polymer actuators

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea

Advanced Materials. 2016. Vol. 28, num. 2, p. 231 – 238. DOI : 10.1002/adma.201504264.

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Soft tunable diffractive optics with multifunctional transparent electrodes enabling integrated actuation

X. Ji; S. Rosset; H. Shea

Applied Physics Letters. 2016. Vol. 109, num. 19, p. 191901. DOI : 10.1063/1.4967001.

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Fabrication process of silicone-based dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; S. Araromi; S. Schlatter; H. Shea

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). 2016. num. 108, p. e53423. DOI : 10.3791/53423.

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Fabrication of transmissive dielectric elastomer actuator driven tunable optical gratings with improved tunability

M. B. Krishnan; S. Rosset; S. Bhattacharya; H. Shea

Optical Engineering. 2016. Vol. 55, num. 4, p. 047104. DOI : 10.1117/1.OE.55.4.047104.

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

D. J. McCoul; S. Rosset; N. Besse; H. Shea

Smart Materials and Structures. 2016. Vol. 26, num. 2, p. 025015. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/26/2/025015.

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Optimization of thin-film highly-compliant elastomer sensors for contractility measurement of muscle cells

O. Araromi; A. Poulin; S. Rosset; M. Imboden; M. Favre et al.

Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2016. Vol. 9, num. 1, p. 1 – 10. DOI : 10.1016/j.eml.2016.03.017.

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Small, fast, and tough: Shrinking down integrated elastomer transducers

S. Rosset; H. Shea

Applied Physics Reviews. 2016. Vol. 3, p. 031105. DOI : 10.1063/1.4963164.

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2015

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

S. Araromi; S. Rosset; H. Shea

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2015. Vol. 7, num. 32, p. 18046 – 18053. DOI : 10.1021/acsami.5b04975.

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A Foldable Antagonistic Actuator

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; D. Floreano; H. Shea

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 5, p. 1997 – 2008. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2359337.

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Dielectric elastomer generators that stack up

T. G. Mckay; S. Rosset; I. A. Anderson; H. Shea

Smart Materials and Structures. 2015. Vol. 24, num. 1, p. 015014. DOI : 10.1088/0964-1726/24/1/015014.

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

S. Araromi; I. Gavrilovich; J. Shintake; S. Rosset; M. Richard et al.

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. 2015. Vol. 20, num. 1, p. 438. DOI : 10.1109/TMECH.2014.2329367.

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Standards for dielectric elastomer transducers

F. Carpi; I. Anderson; S. Bauer; G. Frediani; G. Gallone et al.

Smart Materials and Structures. 2015. Vol. 24, num. 10, p. 105025. DOI : 10.1088/0964-1726/24/10/105025.

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Printing low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

A. Poulin; S. Rosset; H. Shea

Applied Physics Letters. 2015. Vol. 107, num. 24, p. 244104. DOI : 10.1063/1.4937735.

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Ultrafast All-Polymer Electrically Tunable Silicone Lenses

L. Maffli; S. Rosset; M. Ghilardi; F. Carpi; H. Shea

Advanced Functional Materials. 2015. Vol. 25, num. 11, p. 1656 – 1665. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.201403942.

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Maximizing the displacement of compact planar dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; S. Araromi; H. Shea

Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2015. Vol. 3, p. 72 – 81. DOI : 10.1016/j.eml.2015.04.001.

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2014

Model and design of dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

S. Rosset; S. Araromi; J. Shintake; H. Shea

Smart Materials and Structures. 2014. Vol. 23, num. 8, p. 085021. DOI : 10.1088/0964-1726/23/8/085021.

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Tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter based on dielectric elastomer actuation

P. Romano; S. Araromi; S. Rosset; H. Shea; J. Perruisseau-Carrier

Applied Physics Letters. 2014. Vol. 104, p. 024104. DOI : 10.1063/1.4862272.

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2013

Self-sensing dielectric elastomer actuators in closed-loop operation

S. Rosset; B. M. O’Brien; T. Gisby; D. Xu; H. R. Shea et al.

Smart Materials and Structures. 2013. Vol. 22, num. 10, p. 104018. DOI : 10.1088/0964-1726/22/10/104018.

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Ion implanted dielectric elastomer circuits

B. M. O’Brien; S. Rosset; I. A. Anderson; H. R. Shea

Applied Physics A. 2013. Vol. 111, p. 943 – 950. DOI : 10.1007/s00339-012-7319-2.

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Electro and pressure tunable cholesteric liquid crystal devices based on ion-implanted flexible substrates

L. De Sio; G. Palermo; V. Caligiuri; A. E. Vasdekis; A. Pane et al.

Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 2013. Vol. 1, num. 47, p. 7798 – 7802. DOI : 10.1039/c3tc31272k.

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Zipping dielectric elastomer actuators: characterization, design and modeling

L. Maffli; S. Rosset; H. Shea

Smart Materials and Structures. 2013. Vol. 22, num. 10, p. 104013. DOI : 10.1088/0964-1726/22/10/104013.

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our Conference proceedings on EAPs

2021

Fabrication of zipping electrostatic actuators incorporating inkjet-printed layers

G. Grasso; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2021. Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXIII, ELECTR NETWORK, Mar 22-26, 2021. DOI : 10.1117/12.2581393.

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2019

Taming the viscoelastic creep of dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; A. Poulin; H. Shea; I. Anderson

2019. 21st Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI, Denver, CO, Mar 04-07, 2019. DOI : 10.1117/12.2513981.

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Dynamically reconfigurable DEAs incorporating shape memory polymer fibers

B. Aksoy; H. Shea

2019. 21st Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI, Denver, CO, Mar 04-07, 2019. DOI : 10.1117/12.2513195.

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2018

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

S. Rosset; S. Schlatter; C. de Saint-Aubin; A. Poulin; H. Shea

2018. DOI : 10.1117/12.2294408.

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Fabrication and characterization of silicone-based dielectric elastomer actuators for mechanical stimulation of living cells

A. Poulin; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2018. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XX, Denver, Colorado, United States, Denver, Colorado, United States. DOI : 10.1117/12.2295687.

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2017

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

A. Marette; C. de Saint-Aubin; S. Rosset; D. Briand; H. Shea

2017. 2017 19th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), Kaohsiung, Taïwan, June 18-22, 2017. p. 2063 – 2066. DOI : 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2017.7994479.

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Dielectric elastomer actuator for the measurement of cell traction forces with sub-cellular resolution

S. Rosset; A. Poulin; A. Zollinger; M. Smith; H. Shea

2017. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 25, 2017. DOI : 10.1117/12.2258731.

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Inkjet printing of carbon black electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Schlatter; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2017. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2017, Portland, Oregon, USA, March 25, 2017. DOI : 10.1117/12.2258615.

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2016

Fully printed 3 microns thick dielectric elastomer actuator

A. Poulin; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2016. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, March 21-24, 2016. DOI : 10.1117/12.2218256.

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2015

Variable Stiffness Actuator for Soft Robotics Using Dielectric Elastomer and Low-Melting-Point Alloy

J. Shintake; B. E. Schubert; S. Rosset; H. Shea; D. Floreano

2015. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Hamburg, Germany, September 28 – October 02, 2015. p. 1097 – 1102. DOI : 10.1109/IROS.2015.7353507.

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Maximizing strain in miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; S. Araromi; H. Shea

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2083821.

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DEA for soft robotics: 1-gram actuator picks up a 60-gram egg

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; B. E. Schubert; S. Mintchev; D. Floreano et al.

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.

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Towards fast, reliable, and manufacturable DEAs: miniaturized motor and Rupert the rolling robot

S. Rosset; H. Shea

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2085279.

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Low-loss Millimeter-wave Phase Shifters Based on Mechanical Reconfiguration

P. Romano; O. Araromi; S. Rosset; J. Perruisseau-Carrier; H. Shea et al.

2015. 2015 Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), Prague, Czech Republic, July, 6-9, 2015. p. 902 – 907.

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Interfacing dielectric elastomer actuators with liquids

A. Poulin; L. Maffli; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2083837.

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Thin-film dielectric elastomer sensors to measure the contraction force of smooth muscle cells

S. Araromi; A. Poulin; S. Rosset; M. Favre; M. Giazzon et al.

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. DOI : 10.1117/12.2083905.

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Versatile fabrication of PDMS-carbon electrodes for silicone dielectric elastomer transducers

S. Araromi; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2015. TRANSDUCERS 2015 – 2015 18th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, Anchorage, AK, USA, 21-25 June 2015. p. 1905 – 1908. DOI : 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7181323.

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2014

An instrument to obtain the correct biaxial hyperelastic parameters of silicones for accurate DEA modelling

S. Rosset; L. Maffli; S. Houis; H. Shea

2014. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014, San Diego, March 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044777.

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A tunable millimeter-wave phase shifter driven by dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Araromi; P. Romano; S. Rosset; J. Perruisseau-Carrier; H. Shea

2014. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014, San Diego, March 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044589.

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Stack design for portable artificial muscle generators: is it dangerous to be short and fat?

I. Anderson; S. Rosset; T. McKay; H. Shea

2014. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014, San Diego, March 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044940.

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Towards a deployable satellite gripper based on multisegment dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

S. Araromi; I. Gavrilovich; J. Shintake; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2014. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014, San Diego, March 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044667.

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Toward compression of small cell population: Harnessing stress in passive regions of dielectric elastomer actuators

A. Poulin; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2014. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2014, San Diego, March 2014. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044784.

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2013

Effect of mechanical parameters on dielectric elastomer minimum energy structures

J. Shintake; S. Rosset; D. Floreano; H. Shea

2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009368.

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Tunable grating with active feedback

S. Rosset; B. O’Brien; T. Gisby; D. Xu; H. Shea et al.

2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009358.

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Mm-size bistable zipping dielectric elastomer actuators for integrated microfluidics

L. Maffli; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, USA, March 10, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009367.

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An electroactive polymer energy harvester for wireless sensor networks

T. G. Mckay; S. Rosset; I. A. Anderson; H. Shea

2013. 13th International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Technology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS)’, u’13th International Conference on Micro- and Nano-Technology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS), London, UK, december 2013. DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/476/1/012117.

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More than 10-fold increase in the actuation strain of silicone dielectric elastomer actuators by applying prestrain

S. Akbari; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2013. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 10, 2013. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009912.

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2012

Cutting the fat: Artificial muscle oscillators for lighter, cheaper, and slimmer devices

B. O’Brien; S. Rosset; H. Shea; I. A. Anderson

2012. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2012, San Diego, California USA, March 11 – 15, 2012. p. 8340 – 08. DOI : 10.1117/12.915117.

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The need for speed

S. Rosset; P. Gebbers; B. O’Brien; H. Shea

2012. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2012, San Diego, California USA, March 11 – 15, 2012. p. 8340 – 04. DOI : 10.1117/12.914623.

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Stretching cells with DEAs

S. Akbari; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2012. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2012, San Diego, California USA, March 11 – 15, 2012. p. 8340 – 1R. DOI : 10.1117/12.915180.

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Pump it up

L. Maffli; B. O’Brien; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2012. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2012, San Diego, California USA, March 11 – 15, 2012. p. 8340 – 2Q. DOI : 10.1117/12.914831.

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Zipping it up: DEAs independent of the elastomer’s electric breakdown field

P. Gebbers; C. Grätzel; L. Maffli; C. Stamm; H. Shea

2012. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2012, San Diego, California USA, March 11 – 15, 2012. p. 8340 – 2P. DOI : 10.1117/12.915020.

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2011

Arrays of 100μm x 100μm dielectric elastomer actuators to strain the single cells

S. Akbari; H. Shea

2011. 25th Eurosensors Conference, Athens, GREECE, Sep 04-07, 2011. p. 693 – 696. DOI : 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.12.171.

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Multilayer Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Ion Implanted Electrodes

A. Punning; S. Akbari; M. Niklaus; H. Shea

2011. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2011, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, March, 6 – 10 2011. DOI : 10.1117/12.880484.

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2010

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

S. Akbari; M. Nicklaus; H. Shea

2010. SPIE EAPAD 2010, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, March 8-12, 2010. DOI : 10.1117/12.847125.

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Electrically Tunable PDMS Lenses Using Integrated mm-Scale Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

M. Niklaus; H. Shea

2010. Actuators 2010, Bremen, Germany, 14-16 June 2010. p. 440 – 443.

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Array of lenses with individually tunable focal-length based on transparent ion-implanted EAPs

M. Niklaus; S. Rosset; H. Shea

2010. SPIE EAPAD 2010, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, March 8-12, 2010. DOI : 10.1117/12.848445.

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2009

Voltage tuning of the resonance frequency of electroactive polymer membranes over a range of 75%

P. Dubois; S. Rosset; M. Niklaus; H. Shea

2009. Smart Sensors, Actuators, and MEMS IV, Dresden, May 4-6, 2009. p. 73620F – 1. DOI : 10.1117/12.820243.

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Large stroke miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; P. Dubois; M. Niklaus; H. Shea

2009. TRANSDUCERS 2009 – 2009 International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, Denver, CO, USA, 21-25 06 2009. p. 2401 – 2404. DOI : 10.1109/SENSOR.2009.5285428.

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Micromachined Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Ion Implanted Electrodes

S. Rosset; P. Dubois; M. Niklaus; H. Shea

2009. ICMEMS 2009, Chennai, India, January 3-5, 2009.

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Metal Ion Implanted Compliant Electrodes in Dielectric Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Membranes

P. Dubois; S. Rosset; M. Niklaus; M. Dadras; H. Shea

2009. June 08-13, 2008, Acireale, ITALY, p. 18 – 25.

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

M. Niklaus; S. Rosset; P. Dubois; H. Shea

2009. 23rd Eurosensors Conference, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND, Sep 06-09, 2009. p. 702 – 705. DOI : 10.1016/j.proche.2009.07.175.

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Ion-implanted compliant electrodes for mm-size dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; M. Niklaus; P. Dubois; H. Shea

2009. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2009, San Diego, CA, March 2009. DOI : 10.1117/12.815183.

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Comparison of two Metal Ion Implantation Techniques for Fabrication of Gold and Titanium Based Compliant Electrodes on Polydimethylsiloxane

M. Niklaus; S. Rosset; P. Dubois; H. Shea

2009. 2009 MRS Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April 13 – 17, 2009. p. 1188 – LL03. DOI : 10.1557/PROC-1188-LL03-09.

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2008

Modification of Conductivity and of Mechanical Properties of Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Thin Films by Titanium Ion Implantation

M. Niklaus; S. Rosset; M. Dadras; P. Dubois; H. R. Shea

2008. Materials Research Society Symposium, Boston, MA, Nov. 2007. p. 1052 – DD03. DOI : 10.1557/PROC-1052-DD03-10.

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Performance characterization of miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators fabricated using metal ion implantation

S. Rosset; M. Niklaus; P. Dubois; H. Shea

2008. 2008 IEEE 21st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Tucson, AZ, USA, 13-17 01 2008. p. 503 – 506. DOI : 10.1109/MEMSYS.2008.4443703.

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Large Deformation Balloon Micro-Actuator Based on Pyrotechnics on Chip

D. Briand; P. Dubois; L-E. Bonjour; L. Guillot; U. Bley et al.

2008. 21st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems, Tucson, AZ, 13-17 Jan. 2008. p. 535 – 538. DOI : 10.1109/MEMSYS.2008.4443711.

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