This paper presents a dynamic model and design analysis for V-and Z-shaped
electrothermal microactuators operating in vacuum and in air conditions. The model is …

Solar sailing enables efficient propellant-free attitude adjustment and orbital maneuvers of
solar sail spacecraft with high area-to-mass ratios. However, the heavy supporting mass for …

This paper proposes an electro-thermal modeling on multilayered metallic microstructures
that are able to deploy vertically when thermally actuated. A typical design of such …

Lightweight microstructures with high area-to-mass ratios, or low surface densities, show
great potential applications in microrobots, soft electronics, medical devices, and solar …

Ionic polymers such as polyelectrolytes in a nano-composite form with a conductive phase
such as a metal, a synthetic metal or a conductive polymer of carbon, graphite or graphene …

This paper presents a novel design of micro solar sails for emerging lightweight chip scale
spacecraft based on flexible electronic circuits. To acquire large deformation, the micro solar …

This paper presents the design and fabrication of a MEMS chevron-type thermal actuator.
The device was designed for fabrication in the standard MEMS technology, where the …

Realizing out-of-plane actuation in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) is still a
challenging task. In this paper, the design, fabrication methods and experimental results for …

The ultimate goal of this work was to develop a novel electrothermal micro-actuator, with
ease of fabrication and low-cost, using a nickel electroplating technique. In this work, the …

Flexible electronics, as a relatively new category of device, exhibit prodigious potential in
many applications, especially in bio-integrated fields. It is critical to understand that thermal …