Lightweight mechanical amplifiers for rolled dielectric elastomer actuators and their integration with bio-inspired wing flappers

Very high dielectric strength for dielectric elastomer actuators in liquid dielectric immersion

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Large actuation and high dielectric strength in metallized dielectric elastomer actuators

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The thickness and stretch dependence of the electrical breakdown strength of an acrylic dielectric elastomer

(2012) Jiangshui Huang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Two-Port Network Models for Compliant Rhomboidal Strain Amplifiers

(2012) Joshua Schultz et al.   IEEE Transactions on Robotics

Dielectric electro-active polymer push actuators: performance and challenges

(2010) Mohamed Y Benslimane et al.   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Stretching Dielectric Elastomer Performance

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Large Effective-Strain Piezoelectric Actuators Using Nested Cellular Architecture With Exponential Strain Amplification Mechanisms

(2009) J Ueda et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Optimal Design of Lozenge-shaped Dielectric Elastomer Linear Actuators: Mathematical Procedure and Experimental Validation

(2009) Rocco Vertechy et al.   JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT MATERIAL SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES

Advances in Dielectric Elastomers for Actuators and Artificial Muscles

(2009) Paul Brochu et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

A comparison between silicone and acrylic elastomers as dielectric materials in electroactive polymer actuators

(2009) Silvain Michel et al.   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Wound Roll Dielectric Elastomer Actuators: Fabrication, Analysis, and Experiments

(2008) Arun Rajamani et al.   IEEE-ASME TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS

Dielectric elastomers as actuators for upper limb prosthetics: Challenges and opportunities

(2007) Elaine Biddiss et al.   MEDICAL ENGINEERING & PHYSICS