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Professeur assistant tenure-track
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Professeur assistant tenure-track
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STI-SMT
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Herbert Shea
Laboratoire des microsystèmes pour les technologies spatiales
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track
site web: http://lmts.epfl.ch

bureau(x): BM3110 JD14.N.05
tél: [+41 21 69] 36663,0327205584
MISSION
The lab's mission is to develop reliable MEMS for use in Spacecraft, as well as innovative polymer MEMS micro-actuators. More info on the Microsystems for Space Technologies lab at:
http://lmts.epfl.ch
Formation
PhD, Physics, Harvard University, 1997
MA, Physics, Harvard University, 1993
BSc, Physics, McGill University, 1991
Parcours professionnel
Postdoctoral Fellow, IBM Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, 1997-1999
Member of Technical Staff, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 1999-2001
Technical Manager, MEMS Reliability Group, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, 2001-2004
Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, LMTS, EPFL, 2004 - present
Recent Invited talks
• SPIE Photonics West 2009, “MEMS for pico-satellites”, January 2009, San Jose, USA
• International Conference in MEMS 2009 (ICMEMS 09), “Micromachined Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Ion Implanted Electrodes”, January 2009, Chennai, India
• Micro 08 “Microsystèmes en orbite”, September 2008, Neuchatel, Switzerland
• IWPSD 2007, “Micromachined electric propulsion using ionic liquids as fuel”, 14th International Workshop on the Physics of Semiconductor Devices, Mumbai, India, December 2007.
• Short course given at Caneus 2006, “ MEMS and Nano Technologies for Space” by N. de Rooij, H. Shea and D. Briand, August 2006, Toulouse, France
• SPIE Photonics West 2006, “Reliability of MEMS for space applications”, January 25, 2006, San Jose, CA, USA
• 3rd World Congress on Biomimetics, Artificial Muscles & Nano-Bio, Keynote Speaker: “Microactuators based on Ion-Implanted Electroactive Polymer Membranes”, May 2006, Lausanne, Switzerland
• OMEMS 2004, “Design for Reliability of Drift-Free MEMS Micromirrors”, August 25, 2004, Takamatsu, Japan

MAIN PUBLICATIONS
S. Rosset, M. Niklaus, P. Dubois, and H. Shea. Large-Stroke Dielectric Elastomer Actuators With Ion-Implanted Electrodes. JOURNAL OF MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS, 2009.
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P. Carazzetti and H. Shea. Electrical breakdown at low pressure for planar microelectromechanical systems with 10- to 500-micron gaps. Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS,, 8(3):031305, 2009.
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H. Shea. Radiation sensitivity of microelectromechanical system devices. Journal of Micro/Nanolithography, MEMS, and MOEMS, 8(3):031303, 2009.
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R. Krpoun, K. Smith, J. Stark, and H. Shea. Tailoring the hydraulic impedance of out-of-plane micromachined electrospray sources with integrated electrodes. Applied Physics Letters, 94:163502, 2009.
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R. Krpoun and H. Shea. Integrated out-of-plane nanoelectrospray thruster arrays for spacecraft propulsion. JOURNAL OF MICROMECHANICS AND MICROENGINEERING, 19:045019-045029, 2009.
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P. Dubois, C. Botteron, V. Mitev, C. Menon, P.-A. Farine, P. Dainesi, A. Ionescu, and H. Shea. Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks For Exploration Of Solar-System Bodies. Acta Astronautica, pages 470 - 478, 2009.
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S. Rosset, M. Niklaus, P. Dubois, and H. Shea. Metal Ion Implantation for the Fabrication of Stretchable Electrodes on Elastomers. Advanced Functional Materials, 19:470 - 478, 2009.
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P. Dubois, S. Rosset, M. Niklaus, M. Dadras, and H. Shea. Metal Ion Implanted Compliant Electrodes in Dielectric Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Membranes. Advances in Science and Technology, 61:18-25, 2008. special issue, CIMTEC 2008 conference.
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R. Krpoun and H. R. Shea. A method to determine the onset voltage of single and arrays of electrospray emitters. J. Appl. Phys., 104(6):064511, 2008.
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M. Niklaus, S. Rosset, M. Dadras, P. Dubois, and S. Herbert. Microstructure of 5 keV gold-implanted polydimethylsiloxane. Scripta Materialia, 59:893-896, 2008.
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M. Bodendorfer, K. Altwegg, P. Wurz, and H. Shea. Identification of the ECR zone in the SWISSCASE ECR ion source. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 266:4788-4793, 2008.
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P. Carazzetti, P. Renaud, and H. Shea. Micromachined chip-scale plasma light source. Sensors and Actuators A, 2008.
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P. Dubois, S. Rosset, M. Niklaus, M. Dadras, and H. Shea. Voltage control of the resonance frequency of dielectric electroactive polymer (DEAP) membranes. Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, 17:1072 - 1081, 2008.
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S. Rosset, M. Niklaus, P. Dubois, and H. R. Shea. Mechanical characterization of a dielectric elastomer microactuator with ion-implanted electrodes. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 144(1):185-193, 2008.
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M. Bodendorfer, K. Altwegg, H. Shea, and P. Wurz. Field structure and electron life times in the MEFISTO electron cyclotron resonance ion source. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 266:820-828, 2008.
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P. Dubois, S. Rosset, S. Koster, J. Stauffer, S. Mikhaïlov, M. Dadras, N.-F. de Rooij, and H. Shea. Microactuators based on ion implanted dielectric electroactive polymer (EAP) membranes. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 130-131:147-154, 2006.
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Conference papers, Thesis, Patents

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Akbari Samin
Ghose Kaustav
Lalgudi Venkatraman Vinu
Niklaus Muhamed

A dirigé les thèses de:
Bodendorfer Michael Thesis details
Krpoun Renato Thesis details
Rosset Samuel Thesis details


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