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On-Demand Cross-Linkable Bottlebrush Polymers for Voltage- Driven Artificial Muscles

Frank Nüesch, Francis Owusu, Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) generate motion resembling natural muscles in reliability, adaptability, elongation, and frequency of operation. They are highly attractive in implantable soft robots or artificial organs. However, many applications of ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Dataset for "Low-temperature processing of screen-printed piezoelectric KNbO3 with integration onto biodegradable paper substrates"

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Danick Briand, Morgan Mc Kay Monroe

This data set contains the data collected during the FNS project Green Piezo (Grant no. 179064) in association with the recent publication entitled “Low-temperature processing of screen-printed piezoelectric KNbO3 with integration onto biodegradable paper ...

Zenodo2023

Lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators under DC electric fields

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Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are interesting soft actuators compared to other actuation technologies owing to large achievable actuation strains, high energy density and fast actuation. However, because DEAs need to be operated under high electric ...

EPFL2022

Intrinsic switching in Si-doped HfO2: A study of Curie-Weiss law and its implications for negative capacitance field-effect transistor

Igor Stolichnov, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Ali Saeidi, Matteo Cavalieri, Eamon Patrick O'Connor, Carlotta Gastaldi, Sadegh Kamaei Bahmaei

HfO2-based ferroelectrics are considered a promising class of materials for logic and memory applications due to their CMOS compatibility and ferroelectric figures of merit. A steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET) switch is a device for logic applicati ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2021

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

Herbert Shea, Fabio Beco Albuquerque

Humidity, temperature and membrane prestretch influence the dielectric breakdown strength of elastomer membranes. These three factors thus also influence the maximum force and strain that dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) can generate, as the Maxwell p ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Electrical energy generated by silicone elastomers filled with nanospring- carbon- nanotubes

Frank Nüesch

Dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) are flexible capacitors that convert mechanical into electrical energy. They rely on an external voltage source to charge the capacitor during each operation cycle. An alternative to this is an autonomous DEG which op ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Liquid electromigration in gallium-based biphasic thin films

Stéphanie Lacour, Hadrien Olivier Michaud

Liquid metals have recently gained interest as a material of choice for soft and stretchable electronic circuits, thanks to their virtually infinite mechanical failure strain and high electrical conductivity. Gallium-based thin films are obtained by deposi ...

2019

Novel Digital and Radio Frequency Electronic Functions Enabled by Steep-Slope Phase-Change Devices

Emanuele Andrea Casu

In the past half-century, the semiconductor industry has relied on the scaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) transistor dimensions and on material and geometrical innovations to increase the computational density. Approaching the end of ...

EPFL2018

Nonlinear graphene quantum capacitors for electro-optics

Akshay Koottandavida, Sina Khorasani

Owing to its peculiar energy dispersion, the quantum capacitance property of graphene can be exploited in a two- dimensional layered capacitor configuration. Using graphene and boron nitride, respectively, as the electrodes and the insulating dielectric, a ...

Springer Nature2017

Monitoring Charge Carrier Dynamics at Atomic Length Scales by STM-induced Luminescence

Christoph Grosse

The goal of this thesis is the combination of the high spatial resolution of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) with the high temporal resolution of optical spectroscopy, by monitoring the light emitted from the tunnel junction. Two complementary techniqu ...

EPFL2015

Tuneable PTC effect in polymer-wax-carbon composite resistors

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Caroline Jacq, Ludivine Ammon

Purpose: The resistivity dependence on temperature of composite resistors made of carbon fillers dispersed in an organic matrix are known to be strongly affected by the matrix thermal expansion. High positive temperature coefficient (PTC) effects, i.e. ess ...

Emerald2014

Ferroelectric Field Effect Transistor for Memory and Switch Applications

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Silicon technology has advanced at exponential rates both in performances and productivity through the past four decades. However the limit of CMOS technology seems to be closer and closer and in the future we might see an increasing number of hybrid appro ...

EPFL2011

Annealing effects on electrical properties and defects of CaCu_{3}Ti_{4}O_{12} thin films deposited by pulsed laser deposition

Paul Muralt

A systematic study was carried out to assess property changes in CaCu3Ti4O12 thin films upon annealing in air in order to evaluate the impact of oxygen vacancies on their colossal dielectric constant behavior. Highly preferentially oriented thin-film sampl ...

2010

The Effect Of Processing Conditions On The Morphology, Mechanical And Electrical Properties Of Batio3-Polymer Composites

Yves Leterrier, Véronique Michaud, Sara Dalle Vacche

Ferroelectric ceramic – polymer composites have a unique mix of electrical and mechanical properties. Piezoelectric and pyroelectric activity, a wide range of dielectric constants and high breakdown strength are combined with mechanical flexibility, formab ...

2010

Capacitive micro force sensors manufactured with mineral sacrificial layers

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Yannick Sébastien Fournier, Simon Wiedmer

In this work a prototype of micro force sensor of range μN...mN is presented. Instead of the traditional piezoresistive strain sensing through thick-film resistors used for higher forces, a more effective principle is used: measurement of beam displacement ...

2007

High-Voltage Sensitivity Studies of Model Thick-Film Resistors

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Claudio Grimaldi, Niklaus Johner, Adrian Kambli, Caroline Jacq

In this work we seek to better understand the mechanisms governing pulse voltage trimming in disordered conductor-insulator composites. Therefore, we investigate the effect of the composition of thick-film resistors (TFRs) on sensitivity to high voltage pu ...

2006

Properties and stability of thick-film resistors with low processing temperatures - effect of composition and processing parameters

Thomas Maeder, Claudio Grimaldi, Sonia Vionnet Menot, Caroline Jacq

In this work, the properties (sheet-resistance, temperature coefficient and piezoresistance / gauge factor) and stability of thick-film resistors with low firing temperatures (525...650°C) are studied. To this end, two low-melting lead borosilicate glass c ...

2006

Influence of processing and conduction materials on properties of co-fired resistors in LTCC structures

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Hansu Birol

The motivation of this study is the need for fundamental understanding of the effects of processing conditions on the electrical properties of low- temperature co-fired ceramic (LTCC) tapes, those screen printed with commercial thick-film pastes of electro ...

2006

Modification of Thick-film Conductors Used in IP Technology for Reduction of Warpage during Co-firing of LTCC (Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic) Modules

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Hansu Birol

LTCC technology offers low temperature firing (

Trans Tech Publications2006

Low-temperature thick-film dielectrics and resistors for metal substrates

Thomas Maeder, Peter Ryser, Sonia Vionnet Menot, Caroline Jacq

In this work, a set of low-temperature thick-film dielectrics consisting of two high-lead low-temperature glasses, stabilised by various amounts of alumina filler, is characterised on alumina and aluminium metal, as a function of firing temperature. Corres ...

2005