Characterisation of an Electrostatic Vibration Harvester

Stresa, Italy, 25-27 April 2007 CHARACTERISATION OF AN ELECTROSTATIC VIBRATION HARVESTER

Harvesting energy from ambient vibration is proposed as an alternative to storage based power supplies for autonomous systems. The system presented converts the mechanical energy of a vibration into electrical energy by means of a variable capacitor, which is polarized by an electret. A lumped element model is used to study the generator and design a prototype. The device has been micromachined...

Electrostatic Vibration Energy Harvester Pre- charged Wirelessly at 2.45 GHz

An Investigation into Resonant Frequency of Triangular V-Shaped Cantilever Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester

Power supply is a bottle-neck problem of wireless micro-sensors, especially where the replacement of batteries is impossible or inconvenient. Now piezoelectric material is being used to harvest vibration energy for self-powered sensors. However, the geometry of a piezoelectric cantilever beam will greatly affect its vibration energy harvesting ability. This paper deduces a remarkably precise an...

Electrostatic vibration energy harvester with combined effect of electrical nonlinearities and mechanical impact

This paper presents an advanced study including the design, characterization and theoretical analysis of a capacitive vibration energy harvester. Although based on a resonant electromechanical device, it is intended for operation in a wide frequency band due to the combination of stop-end effects and a strong biasing electrical field. The electrostatic transducer has an interdigited comb geomet...

Smart Adaptive Power Management in Electrostatic Harvester of Vibration Energy

This paper reports a new functional design and modeling of a vibration energy harvester composed from a mechanical resonator (MEMS), capacitive transducer and a conditioning circuit based on the BUCK DCDC converter architecture. The basic configuration of conditioning circuit from [1][2] is enhanced with two major features for the power management allowing, firstly, to adapt dynamically to the ...