energy harvesting – TechConnect Briefs

Towards In-Vivo Radio Transmitting Nano-Robots

Dolev S., Narayanan R.P., Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, IL

An implementable design of a Nano Electro Mechani- cal (NEM) Carbon Nanotube (CNT) cantilever for com- munication in nanorobots is sketched in this brief sum- mary. Nano communication devices can provide future nanorobots with the [...]

Discovering of Collagen-1’s Role in Producing Superconducting Current in Nanobiomimetic Superlattice Structured Organometallic Devices at Room Temperature Enabled Direct Quantitation of Sub pg/mL Collagen-1 by a Voltage and a Cyclic Voltammetry Method

Chen E.T., Thornton J.T., Kissinger P.T., Duh S-H, Advanced Biomimetic Sensors, Inc., US

Cooper pair electrons producing superconducting current in near zero Kelvin temperature at the Josephson-junction in the superconductors show its potential utilities. Could also a superconducting current produced by a superlattice organometallic device enable direct detection [...]

Flexible Sheet-type Thermoelectric Generators for Energy Harvesting

Muto T., Kato K., Morita W., Lintec Corporation, JP

Seebeck type thermoelectric (TE) generators are one of the promising devices for the waste heat conversion to the electricity as well as the energy harvesters at a temperature range between room temperature and 200 oC. [...]

Flexible Printed Thermoelectric Textiles for Low Temperature Waste Heat Energy Harvesting Systems

Ankireddy K., Iezzi B., Losego M.D., Jur J.S., North Carolina State University, US

Printed-thermopiles embedded pipe insulation was constructed and demonstrated successfully the feasibility of generating power by wrapping the constructed insulation around a heat pipe. The global need for clean and sustainable energy along with recent advances [...]

Solar Energy System Prototype with a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT)

Abdelmoaty A.A., Helmy A., Rezk A.A., Ismail Y., The American University in Cairo, EG

The paper shows the design and implementation of a novel power management unit that combines (mixes) several power harvesting sources and delivers (routes) the power to the working load and the battery. The system can [...]

Fabrication of Infrared Energy Harvester Using Electrically Small Particles

AlShareef M.R., Cui B., Ramahi O., University of Waterloo, CA

A novel structure based on electrically small resonators is proposed for harvesting the infrared energy and yielding more than 84% harvesting efficiency. The proposed harvester has been fabricated using nano-fabrication tools. Moreover, silver adhesion improvement [...]

Modeling and Simulation of PVDF-TrFE Based MEMS Scale Cantilever Type Energy Harvesters

Toprak A., Tigli O., University of Miami, US

We present the FEM modeling and simulation of a cantilever type piezoelectric energy harvester constructed using PVDF-TrFE. PVDF-TrFE is a CMOS compatible, soft piezoelectric polymer with a moderate electromechanical coupling coefficient. It is also flexible [...]