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30 June 2005 Review of energy harvesting techniques and applications for microelectronics (Keynote Address)
Loreto Mateu, Francesc Moll
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Proceedings Volume 5837, VLSI Circuits and Systems II; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.613046
Event: Microtechnologies for the New Millennium 2005, 2005, Sevilla, Spain
Abstract
The trends in technology allow the decrease in both size and power consumption of complex digital systems. This decrease in size and power gives rise to new paradigms of computing and use of electronics, with many small devices working collaboratively or at least with strong communication capabilities. Examples of these new paradigms are wearable devices and wireless sensor networks. Currently, these devices are powered by batteries. However, batteries present several disadvantages: the need to either replace or recharge them periodically and their big size and weight compared to high technology electronics. One possibility to overcome these power limitations is to extract (harvest) energy from the environment to either recharge a battery, or even to directly power the electronic device. This paper presents several methods to design an energy harvesting device depending on the type of energy avaliable.
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Loreto Mateu and Francesc Moll "Review of energy harvesting techniques and applications for microelectronics (Keynote Address)", Proc. SPIE 5837, VLSI Circuits and Systems II, (30 June 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.613046
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KEYWORDS
Energy harvesting
Capacitors
Electronic components
Solar energy
Microelectromechanical systems
Transducers
Capacitance
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