our DEA publications

our Peer-reviewed DEA papers

2023

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

G. Grasso; S. Rosset; H. Shea 

Advanced Functional Materials. 2023-02-20. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202213821.

2022

Shielded soft force sensors

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

Nature Communications. 2022-08-09. Vol. 13, num. 1, p. 4649. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-022-32391-0.

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. 2022-07-19. Vol. 10, p. 934756. DOI : 10.3389/fbioe.2022.934756.

Multistable shape programming of variable-stiffness electromagnetic devices

B. Aksoy; H. Shea 

Science Advances. 2022-05-27. Vol. 8, num. 21, p. eabk0543. DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.abk0543.

2021

Geometric optimization of dielectric elastomer electrodes for dynamic applications

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

Applied Acoustics. 2021-10-01. Vol. 181, p. 108120. DOI : 10.1016/j.apacoust.2021.108120.

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. 2021-06-01. Vol. 30, num. 6, p. 065020. DOI : 10.1088/1361-665X/abfb85.

Editorial: Soft Robotics Based on Electroactive Polymers

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

Frontiers In Robotics And Ai. 2021-04-30. Vol. 8, p. 676406. DOI : 10.3389/frobt.2021.676406.

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. 2020-10-07. Vol. 30, num. 41, p. 1-10, 2006639. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202006639.

Inkjet Printing of Complex Soft Machines with Densely Integrated Electrostatic Actuators

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

Advanced Intelligent Systems. 2020-09-03.  p. 2000136. DOI : 10.1002/aisy.202000136.

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

B. Aksoy; H. Shea 

Advanced Functional Materials. 2020-05-20.  p. 1-11, 2001597. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.202001597.

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. 2019-12-18. Vol. 4, num. 37, p. eaaz6451. DOI : 10.1126/scirobotics.aaz6451.

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. 2019-07-30.  p. 1900205. DOI : 10.1002/aelm.201900205.

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. 2019-02-19. Vol. 10, num. 1, p. 834. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-08757-2.

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. 2019-02-12. Vol. 19, num. 4, p. 608-617. DOI : 10.1039/C8LC01024B.

An open-loop control scheme to increase the speed and reduce the viscoelastic drift of dielectric elastomer actuators

A. Poulin; S. Rosset 

Extreme Mechanics Letters. 2019-02-01. Vol. 27, p. 20-26. DOI : 10.1016/j.eml.2019.01.001.

2018

Peta-pico-Voltron: An open-source high voltage power supply

S. Schlatter; P. Illenberger; S. Rosset 

HardwareX. 2018-08-07. Vol. 4, p. e00039. DOI : 10.1016/j.ohx.2018.e00039.

An ultra-fast mechanically active cell culture substrate

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

Scientific Reports. 2018-07-02. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 9895. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-27915-y.

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.

Electrically-Induced Actuation of Acrylic-Based Dielectric Elastomers in Excess of 500% Strain

Y. Goh; S. Akbari; T. Vo; S. Koh 

Soft Robotics. 2018.  p. 675-684. DOI : 10.1089/soro.2017.0078.

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.

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. 2017-10-27. Vol. 11, num. 1, p. 30-38. DOI : 10.1109/TOH.2017.2767049.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2016

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2015

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

2013

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.

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.

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.

Improved electromechanical behavior in castable dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Akbari; S. Rosset; H. Shea 

Applied Physics Letters. 2013. Vol. 102, p. 071906. DOI : 10.1063/1.4793420.

Electromagnetic characterisation of flexible conductive membranes at millimetre-waves

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

Electronics Letters. 2013. Vol. 49, num. 5, p. 353-354. DOI : 10.1049/el.2012.4468.

Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; H. Shea 

Applied Physics A. 2013. Vol. 110, p. 281-307. DOI : 10.1007/s00339-012-7402-8.

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.

2012

An array of 100 μm × 100 μm dielectric elastomer actuators with 80% strain for tissue engineering applications

S. Akbari; H. Shea 

Sensors and Actuators A. 2012. Vol. 186, p. 236-241. DOI : 10.1016/j.sna.2012.01.030.

Microfabrication and characterization of an array of dielectric elastomer actuators generating uniaxial strain to stretch individual cells

S. Akbari; H. R. Shea 

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. 2012. Vol. 22, num. 4, p. 045020. DOI : 10.1088/0960-1317/22/4/045020.

2011

Enhancement of actuation ability of ionic-type conducting polymer actuators using metal ion implantation

G. Alici; A. Punning; H. R. Shea 

Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 2011. Vol. 157, p. 72-84. DOI : 10.1016/j.snb.2011.03.028.

Electrical conductivity and Young’s modulus of flexible nanocomposites made by metal ion implantation of Polydimethylsiloxane: the relationship between nanostructure and macroscopic properties

M. Niklaus; H. Shea 

Acta Materialia. 2011. Vol. 59, p. 830-840. DOI : 10.1016/j.actamat.2010.10.030.

2010

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

J-W. Choi; S. Rosset; M. Niklaus; J. Adleman; H. Shea et al. 

Lab on a Chip – Miniaturisation for Chemistry and Biology. 2010. Vol. 10, num. 6, p. 783-788. DOI : 10.1039/b917719a.

2009

Large-Stroke Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Ion- Implanted Electrodes

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

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 2009. Vol. 18, num. 6, p. 1300-1308. DOI : 10.1109/JMEMS.2009.2031690.

Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks For Exploration Of Solar-System Bodies

P. Dubois; C. Botteron; V. Mitev; C. Menon; P-A. Farine et al. 

Acta Astronautica. 2009. Vol. 64, num. 5-6, p. 470-478. DOI : 10.1016/j.actaastro.2008.11.012.

Metal Ion Implantation for the Fabrication of Stretchable Electrodes on Elastomers

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

Advanced Functional Materials. 2009. Vol. 19, p. 470-478. DOI : 10.1002/adfm.200801218.

2008

Microstructure of 5 keV gold-implanted polydimethylsiloxane

M. Niklaus; S. Rosset; M. Dadras; P. Dubois; S. Herbert 

Scripta Materialia. 2008. Vol. 59, p. 893-896. DOI : 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2008.06.038.

Voltage control of the resonance frequency of dielectric electroactive polymer (DEAP) membranes

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

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems. 2008. Vol. 17, p. 1072-1081. DOI : 10.1109/JMEMS.2008.927741.

Mechanical characterization of a dielectric elastomer microactuator with ion-implanted electrodes

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

Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 2008. Vol. 144, num. 1, p. 185-193. DOI : 10.1016/j.sna.2007.12.030.

2006

Microactuators based on ion implanted dielectric electroactive polymer (EAP) membranes

P. Dubois; S. Rosset; S. Koster; J. Stauffer; S. Mikhaïlov et al. 

Sensors and Actuators A: Physical. 2006. Vol. 130-131, p. 147-154. DOI : 10.1016/j.sna.2005.11.069.

our Conference proceedings on EAPs

2021

Fabrication of zipping electrostatic actuators incorporating inkjet-printed layers

G. Grasso; S. Rosset; H. Shea 

2021-01-01. Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXIII, ELECTR NETWORK, Mar 22-26, 2021. p. 115871O. DOI : 10.1117/12.2581393.

2019

Taming the viscoelastic creep of dielectric elastomer actuators

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

2019-01-01. 21st Conference on Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) XXI, Denver, CO, Mar 04-07, 2019. p. 1096614. DOI : 10.1117/12.2513981.

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.

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.

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 

2017-07-27. 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.

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. p. 1016311. DOI : 10.1117/12.2258615.

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. p. 101630P. DOI : 10.1117/12.2258731.

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. p. 97980L. DOI : 10.1117/12.2218256.

2015

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.

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.

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.

Stretchable and Transparent THz Reflectarrays Based on PDMS

P. Romano; M. Tamagnone; S. Capdevila Cascante; S. Rosset; H. Shea et al. 

2015. International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, New York, US, August, 4-7, 2015.

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. p. 943011. DOI : 10.1117/12.2083837.

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. p. 94300Z. DOI : 10.1117/12.2083905.

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. p. 94301S. DOI : 10.1117/12.2084043.

Maximizing strain in miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators

S. Rosset; S. Araromi; H. Shea 

2015. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 2015. p. 94301J. DOI : 10.1117/12.2083821.

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. p. 943009. DOI : 10.1117/12.2085279.

2014

Microwave to terahertz reconfiguration of antenna devices using dielectric elastomer micro-actuators

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

2014. 9th ESA Round Table on Micro and Nano Technologies, Lausanne, Switzerland, June, 10-13, 2014.

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. p. 90560Q. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044940.

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. p. 90561Q. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044784.

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. p. 90562M. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044589.

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. p. 90560M. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044777.

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. p. 90562G. DOI : 10.1117/12.2044667.

2013

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.

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. p. 86872V. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009368.

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. p. 86872M. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009367.

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. p. 86872F. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009358.

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. p. 86871P. DOI : 10.1117/12.2009912.

Surface impedance measurements of thin flexible metallization at millimeter-waves

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

2013. 7th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 8-12, 2013.

2012

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miniaturized EAPs with compliant electrodes fabricated by ion implantation

H. Shea 

2011. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) 2011, SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, March, 6 – 10 2011. p. 79760R. DOI : 10.1117/12.882212.

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. p. 79760U. DOI : 10.1117/12.880484.

2010

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.

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.

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.

2009

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.

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-LL03-09. DOI : 10.1557/PROC-1188-LL03-09.

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.

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.

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. p. 72870C. DOI : 10.1117/12.815183.

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.

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.

2008

Ion-implanted compliant and patternable electrodes for miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators

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

2008. Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), San Diego, March 9-13, 2008. p. 69270W-10. DOI : 10.1117/12.775727.

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-DD03-10. DOI : 10.1557/PROC-1052-DD03-10.

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.

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.

2007

Mechanical properties of electroactive polymer microactuators with ion-implanted electrodes

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

2007.  p. 652410-11. DOI : 10.1117/12.714944.

2006

Paraffin-PDMS composite thermo microactuator with large vertical displacement capability

P. Dubois; E. Vela; S. Koster; D. Briand; H. R. Shea et al. 

2006.  p. 215-218.

Ad-hoc wireless sensor networks for exploration of solar-system bodies

P. Dubois; C. Menon; H. R. Shea 

2006. 

2005

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

P. Dubois; S. Rosset; J-M. Buforn; J. Stauffer; S. Mikhaïlov et al. 

2005.  p. 2048-2051. DOI : 10.1109/SENSOR.2005.1497505.