Herbert Shea

17.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
265 papers, 13.3k citations indexed

About

Herbert Shea is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Herbert Shea has authored 265 papers receiving a total of 13.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 186 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 84 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 62 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Herbert Shea's work include Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (131 papers), Dielectric materials and actuators (107 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (50 papers). Herbert Shea is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials (131 papers), Dielectric materials and actuators (107 papers) and Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Materials (50 papers). Herbert Shea collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and New Zealand. Herbert Shea's co-authors include Samuel Rosset, Jun Shintake, Dario Floreano, Richard Martel, Phaedon Avouris, Vito Cacucciolo, Thomas Schmidt, Tobias Hertel, Ronan Hinchet and Bryan Schubert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Herbert Shea

261 papers receiving 12.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Single- and multi-wall carbon nanotube field-effect transistors

1998 2.2k citations Herbert Shea et al. Applied Physics Letters profile →
Soft Robotic Grippers

2018 1.4k citations Vito Cacucciolo, Herbert Shea et al. profile →
Versatile Soft Grippers with Intrinsic Electroadhesion Based on Multifunctional Polymer Actuators

2015 659 citations Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea et al. profile →
Flexible and stretchable electrodes for dielectric elastomer actuators

2012 440 citations Samuel Rosset, Herbert Shea profile →
An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators

2019 424 citations Xiaobin Ji, Xinchang Liu et al. Science Robotics profile →
Stretchable pumps for soft machines

2019 339 citations Vito Cacucciolo, Herbert Shea et al. profile →
Soft Biomimetic Fish Robot Made of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators

2018 281 citations Vito Cacucciolo, Herbert Shea et al. profile →
Fiber pumps for wearable fluidic systems

2023 100 citations Vito Cacucciolo, Herbert Shea et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Herbert Shea	9.2k	3.9k	3.2k	2.7k	1.3k	265	13.3k
Hanqing Jiang	7.3k 0.8×	3.2k 0.8×	5.9k 1.9×	3.4k 1.2×	738 0.6×	208	13.9k
Jizhou Song	9.7k 1.1×	2.1k 0.5×	4.6k 1.5×	3.6k 1.3×	1.5k 1.2×	189	13.1k
Carmel Majidi	16.0k 1.7×	2.0k 0.5×	7.1k 2.3×	3.9k 1.4×	3.1k 2.4×	275	20.3k
Guoying Gu	5.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	2.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	687 0.5×	170	9.4k
Yong Zhu	10.0k 1.1×	4.6k 1.2×	2.4k 0.8×	5.6k 2.0×	1.9k 1.5×	237	16.1k
Weiqiu Chen	6.2k 0.7×	4.1k 1.0×	3.7k 1.2×	1.3k 0.5×	349 0.3×	638	18.3k
Xue Feng	9.0k 1.0×	2.1k 0.5×	3.1k 1.0×	4.6k 1.7×	1.8k 1.4×	329	13.5k
Xin Chen	4.9k 0.5×	3.0k 0.8×	1.6k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	301 0.2×	156	7.5k
Seung Hwan Ko	15.7k 1.7×	5.0k 1.3×	2.9k 0.9×	12.0k 4.4×	2.2k 1.7×	372	24.5k
S. Wagner	6.4k 0.7×	4.6k 1.2×	2.1k 0.7×	8.7k 3.2×	899 0.7×	507	13.8k

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Schultes, Günter, et al.. (2023). Electrode Impact on the Electrical Breakdown of Dielectric Elastomer Thin Films. Polymers. 15(20). 4071–4071. 7 indexed citations

Cacucciolo, Vito, Herbert Shea, & Giuseppe Carbone. (2021). Peeling in electroadhesion soft grippers. Extreme Mechanics Letters. 50. 101529–101529. 55 indexed citations

Shea, Herbert, et al.. (2021). Automated test setup to quantify the lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators under a wide range of operating conditions. Smart Materials and Structures. 30(6). 65020–65020. 8 indexed citations

Shea, Herbert, et al.. (2021). Influence of electric field, temperature, humidity, elastomer material, and encapsulation on the lifetime of dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) under DC actuation. Smart Materials and Structures. 30(12). 125022–125022. 22 indexed citations

Ji, Xiaobin, Xinchang Liu, Vito Cacucciolo, et al.. (2020). Untethered Feel‐Through Haptics Using 18‐µm Thick Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Functional Materials. 31(39). 152 indexed citations

Haque, Rubaiyet Iftekharul, et al.. (2019). Triboelectric‐TFT Flip‐Flop for Bistable Latching of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Advanced Electronic Materials. 5(10). 5 indexed citations

Grimaudo, Valentine, Marek Tulej, Andreas Riedo, et al.. (2019). The LMS-GT instrument – a new perspective for quantification with the LIMS-TOF measurement technique. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry. 34(10). 2061–2073. 14 indexed citations

Ji, Xiaobin, Xinchang Liu, Vito Cacucciolo, et al.. (2019). An autonomous untethered fast soft robotic insect driven by low-voltage dielectric elastomer actuators. Science Robotics. 4(37). 424 indexed citations breakdown →

Poulin, Alexandre, et al.. (2019). Integrated elastomer-based device for measuring the mechanics of adherent cell monolayers. Lab on a Chip. 19(12). 2138–2146. 13 indexed citations

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Besse, Nadine, et al.. (2019). Latchable microfluidic valve arrays based on shape memory polymer actuators. Lab on a Chip. 19(4). 608–617. 23 indexed citations

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Kyung, Ki‐Uk, et al.. (2018). Applications of Smart Materials to Haptics. IEEE Transactions on Haptics. 11(1). 2–4. 13 indexed citations

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Poulin, Alexandre, Samuel Rosset, & Herbert Shea. (2016). Fully printed 3 microns thick dielectric elastomer actuator. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9798. 97980L–97980L. 18 indexed citations

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Ji, Xiaobin, Samuel Rosset, & Herbert Shea. (2016). Soft tunable diffractive optics with multifunctional transparent electrodes enabling integrated actuation. Applied Physics Letters. 109(19). 11 indexed citations

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Ataman, Ç‪ağlar, et al.. (2013). Design and fabrication of the thruster heads for the MicroThrust MEMS electrospray propulsion system. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 6 indexed citations

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Richard, Muriel, Luzius Kronig, Federico Belloni, et al.. (2013). Uncooperative Rendezvous and Docking for MicroSats. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 14 indexed citations

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Ataman, Ç‪ağlar, et al.. (2011). Microfabrication of Capillary Electrospray Emitters and ToF Characterization of the Emitted Beam. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 5 indexed citations

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Niklaus, Muhamed & Herbert Shea. (2010). Electrically Tunable PDMS Lenses Using Integrated mm-Scale Dielectric Elastomer Actuators. Actuators. 440–443. 1 indexed citations

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Schori, C., Yves Pétremand, Thomas Maeder, et al.. (2009). CPT spectroscopy on low-temperature sealed MEMS rubidium vapour cells. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1 indexed citations

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Gersbach, Marek, et al.. (2008). A Study of the Effects of Gamma Radiation on CMOS Single=Photon Avalanche Diodes. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 2 indexed citations

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Niklaus, Muhamed, et al.. (2008). Modification of Conductivity and of Mechanical Properties of Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Thin Films by Titanium Ion Implantation. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 1 indexed citations

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