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Professeur assistant tenure-track |
STI
IMT
LMTS
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Professeur assistant tenure-track |
STI
STI-SMT
SMT-ENS
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Herbert Shea
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Laboratoire des microsystèmes pour les technologies spatiales
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MISSION
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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
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Formation
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PhD, Physics, Harvard University, 1997
MA, Physics, Harvard University, 1993
BSc, Physics, McGill University, 1991
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Parcours professionnel
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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
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Recent Invited talks
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• 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
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MAIN PUBLICATIONS
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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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Link to my lab's conference papers, thesis and patents
Herb Shea's citation index (via ResearchID)
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Links from EPFL-LMTS Lab webpage
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People
Research Activities
Funding Sources
Publications
Teaching
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