Modeling of a High Force Density Fishbone Shaped Electrostatic Comb Drive Microactuator
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 This paper presents the design and evaluation of a high force density fishbone shaped electrostatic comb drive actuator. This comb drive actuator has a branched structure similar to a fishbone, which is intended to increase the capacitance of the ...
Megat Muhammad Ikhsan Megat Hasnan +3 more
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Electro-responsive actuators based on graphene
The Innovation, 2021 Electro-responsive actuators (ERAs) hold great promise for cutting-edge applications in e-skins, soft robots, unmanned flight, and in vivo surgery devices due to the advantages of fast response, precise control, programmable deformation, and the ease of ...
Yong-Lai Zhang +5 more
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Maximum Effectiveness of Electrostatic Energy Harvesters When Coupled to Interface Circuits [PDF]
, 2012 Accepted ...
Green, TC, Mitcheson, PD
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Artificial Muscles: Electrostatic Actuation and Design Tradeoffs
BiomimeticsArtificial muscles are an emerging class of actuators designed to mimic the compliant, efficient, and versatile behavior of biological muscles for fields including the following: soft robotics, prosthetics, wearable enhancements, haptic interfaces, and ...
Gabriel X. Colborn +8 more
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Optical Gas Sensor Fabrication Based on Porphyrin-Anchored Electrostatic Self-Assembly onto Tapered Optical Fibers [PDF]
, 2012 Tapered optical fibers with nano-assembled coatings of thicknesses of order tens of nanometres were used for the detection of ammonia gas. The film coating was composed of alternate layers of tetrakis-(4-sulfophenyl) porphine (TSPP) and poly(allylamine ...
Lee, Seung-Woo +5 more
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Large Stepwise Discrete Microsystem Displacements Based on Electrostatic Bending Plate Actuation
Actuators, 2021 We present the design, fabrication, and experimental characterization of microsystems achieving large and stepwise discrete displacements. The systems consist of electrostatic bending plate actuators linked in a chain with increasing electrode gaps to ...
Lisa Schmitt, Martin Hoffmann
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The Effect of Residual Stress on the Electromechanical Behavior of Electrostatic Microactuators
Active and Passive Electronic Components, 2008 This work simulates the nonlinear electromechanical behavior of different electrostatic microactuators. It applies the differential quadrature method, Hamilton's principle, and Wilson-θ integration method to derive the equations of motion of ...
Ming-Hung Hsu
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Dynamic Behaviour of Nanoscale Electrostatic Actuators
, 2003 The dynamic behaviour for nanoscale electrostatic actuators is studied. A two Parameter mass-spring model is shown to exhibit a bifurcation from the case excluding an equilibrium point to the case including two equilibrium points as the geometrical ...
林文惠 +2 more
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2-dimensional impact-damping electrostatic actuators with elastomer-enhanced auxetic structure
Nature CommunicationsBiomimetic robots yearn for compliant actuators that are comparable to biological muscle in both functions and structural properties. For that, electrostatic actuators have been developed to imitate bio-muscle in features of fast response, high power ...
Xuechuan Wang +3 more
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High‐Output Force Electrohydraulic Actuator Powered by Induced Interfacial Charges
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Herein, a novel soft actuator design is presented that simultaneously enables a high‐output force at a low operating voltage and an adjustable large normal displacement.
Hyunwoo Kim +4 more
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