Design, fabrication and testing of the P3 micro heat engine

By S. Whalen, M. Thompson, D. Bahr, C. Richards, R. Richards. 2003

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Powering MEMS portable devices—a review of non-regenerative and regenerative power supply systems with special emphasis on piezoelectric energy harvesting systems (2008, background): “The first of these, miniaturization of power supplies, has included studies of thin film and microbatteries [2–10], microcombustors [11–17], microheat engines [18, 19], microturbines [20, 21] and microfuel cells [22–26] for powering MEMS.”
Power Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks (2004, methodology): “The thermal-expansion actuated piezoelectric generator referred to earlier [17] has also been proposed as a method to convert power from ambient temperature gradients to electricity.”
Optimization of electromechanical coupling for a thin-film PZT membrane: II. Experiment (2005, background): “These devices are designed for use in a micro heat engine as a generator to convert mechanical power to electrical power [1].”