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Mm-size bistable zipping dielectric elastomer actuators for integrated microfluidics

Maffli, Luc  
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Rosset, Samuel  
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Shea, Herbert  
2013
Proceedings of SPIE
Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD)

We report on a new structure of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs) called zipping DEAs, which have a set of unique characteristics that are a good match for the requirements of electrically-powered integrated microfluidic pumping and/or valving units as well as Braille displays. The zipping DEAs operate by pulling electrostatically an elastomer membrane in contact with the rigid sidewalls of a sloped chamber. In this work, we report on fully functional mm-size zipping DEAs that demonstrate a complete sealing of the chamber sidewalls and a tunable bistable behavior, and compare the measurements with an analytical model. Compared to our first generation of devices, we are able vary the sidewall angle and benefit therefore from more flexibility to study the requirements to make fully functional actuators. In particular, we show that with Nusil CF19 as membrane material (1.2 MPa Young’s modulus), it is possible to zip completely 2.3 mm diameter chambers with 15° and 21° sidewalls angle equibiaxially prestretched to λ0=1.12 and 15° chambers with λ0=1.27.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2009367
Web of Science ID

WOS:000323000000073

Author(s)
Maffli, Luc  
Rosset, Samuel  
Shea, Herbert  
Date Issued

2013

Publisher

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Proceedings of SPIE
ISBN of the book

978-0-8194-9470-2

Total of pages

10

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

8687

Start page

86872M

Subjects

Electro Active Polymers (EAP)

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zipping

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Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEA)

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silicone

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microfluidics

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Braille display

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bistable

Editorial or Peer reviewed

NON-REVIEWED

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Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD)

San Diego, USA

March 10, 2013

Available on Infoscience
April 22, 2013
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/91663
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