Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):
J. Iannacci, G. Sordo, M. Schneider, U. Schmid, A. Camarda, A. Romani:
"A Novel Toggle-Type MEMS Vibration Energy Harvester for Internet of Things Applications";
Poster: Sensors 2016,
Orlando, Florida, USA;
10-30-2016
- 11-02-2016; in: "Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors 2016",
IEEE,
(2016),
ISBN: 978-1-4799-8287-5;
3 pages.
English abstract:
Abstract-The paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) has
emerged as a main driving force, stimulating research and
development of pervasive, integrated, heterogeneous and power
autonomous wireless sensing nodes. In this work, we focus on the
aspect of energy, by discussing a novel MEMS based Energy
Harvester (i.e. EH-MEMS) design concept, aimed to convert
environmental vibrations´ energy through the piezoelectric
effect. The characterized physical samples, based on toggle
mechanical resonator concept, provided up to 396 nW (Root
Mean Square - RMS power) at resonance (1.6 kHz) when
stimulated with 1.3 g sinusoidal acceleration, at ambient pressure
and with 1 M load. Thanks to the reduced EH-MEMS volume
(1.94 mm3), Normalized Power Density (NPD) figures of about
240 W/g2/cm3 are achieved.
Keywords:
Energy Harvester/Harvesting (EH); Internet of Things (IoT); MEMS; Microsystems; Piezoelectric conversion; Ultra-Low Power (ULP) remote sensing, Vibrations
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