Energy Scavenging for Wireless Sensor Nodes with a Focus on Vibration-to-Electricity Conversion

By Shad Roundy. 2003

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Comparison of MEMS PZT Cantilevers Based on $d_{31}$ and $d_{33}$ Modes for Vibration Energy Harvesting (2013, background): “The detailed derivation process can be found in Roundy’s dissertation [22].”
Power Approaches for Implantable Medical Devices (2015, background): “there are three different types of electrostatic generators which can be defined according to their actuation direction: the in-plane gap closing, out-of-plane closing and in-plane overlap [107].”
Powering MEMS portable devices—a review of non-regenerative and regenerative power supply systems with special emphasis on piezoelectric energy harvesting systems (2008, background): “micromachining fabrication techniques, and most of the work has focused on in-plane and out-of-plane capacitors [183].”
Power Sources for Wireless Sensor Networks (2004, background): “Both Roundy et al and Ottman et al [44-45] have demonstrated wireless transceivers powered from vibrations.”
Feasibility of structural monitoring with vibration powered sensors (2006, background): “Using heat or thermal gradients provide energy levels that are too low to power sensors for infrastructure monitoring (Roundy 2003).”
Comparison of energy harvesting systems for wireless sensor networks (2008, background): “Roundy([37]) considered three possible structures named out-of-plane gap closing in which the separation of a simple parallel plate capacitor varies (as described above); in-plane gap closing, in which the separation of interdigitated fingers varies and in-plane overlap varying in which the overlap ”
A vibration energy harvesting device with bidirectional resonance frequency tunability (2008, background): “sources, which the literature suggests are typically under 100 Hz [13, 21].”
An Electromagnetic Micro Power Generator for Low-Frequency Environmental Vibrations Based on the Frequency Upconversion Technique (2009, methodology): “So far, mainly three types of vibrationbased techniques have been utilized to harvest energy: capacitive [4]–[11], piezoelectric [ 12 ]–[17], and electromagnetic [17]–[36].”