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SUMMARY
Cooperative microsystems usually rely on silicon, fluidic, shape memory alloy, or piezoelectric transducers to implement actuation. Dielectric elastomers (DEs), consisting of thin and stretchable capacitors that expand when subjected to high voltage, appear to be a suitable alternative technology for cooperative microactuators. For instance, a multistable biasing mechanism allows the magnification of the system stroke by up to an order of magnitude compared to a linear bias spring. To achieve large strokes in dielectric elastomer membrane systems, Hodgins et_al demonstrated the usefulness of so-called negative-rate bias springs based on 2 of 7 . . .
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