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Energy Harvesting

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2011) | Viewed by 17154

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Prof. Dr. Luc Fréchette

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Département de Génie Mécanique, Université de Sherbrooke, 2500 Boulevard de l'Université, Sherbrooke, QC J1K 2R1, Canada
Interests: MEMS; energy conversion; micro fuel cells; microturbines; heat and vibration energy harvesting; harsh environment sensors; microfluidics; thermal management; packaging
Prof. Dr. Peter Woias

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Laboratory for Design of Microsystems, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Georges-Koehler-Alle 102, 79110 Freiburg, Germany
Interests: microfluidics and micropumps; micro energy harvesting
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Recent Progress in Piezoelectric Conversion and Energy Harvesting Using Nonlinear Electronic Interfaces and Issues in Small Scale Implementation
by Daniel Guyomar and Mickaël Lallart
Micromachines 2011, 2(2), 274-294; https://doi.org/10.3390/mi2020274 - 3 Jun 2011
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This paper aims at providing an up-to-date review of nonlinear electronic interfaces for energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations using piezoelectric coupling. The basic principles and the direct application to energy harvesting of nonlinear treatment of the output voltage of the transducers for conversion [...] Read more.
This paper aims at providing an up-to-date review of nonlinear electronic interfaces for energy harvesting from mechanical vibrations using piezoelectric coupling. The basic principles and the direct application to energy harvesting of nonlinear treatment of the output voltage of the transducers for conversion enhancement will be recalled, and extensions of this approach presented. Latest advances in this field will be exposed, such as the use of intermediate energy tanks for decoupling or initial energy injection for conversion magnification. A comparative analysis of each of these techniques will be performed, highlighting the advantages and drawbacks of the methods, in terms of efficiency, performance under several excitation conditions, complexity of implementation and so on. Finally, a special focus of their implementation in the case of low voltage output transducers (as in the case of microsystems) will be presented. Full article
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