Design and optimization of a MEMS electret-based capacitive energy scavenger

By Fabio Peano, T. Tambosso. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2005

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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In Biomedical Engineering

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4. S. Beeby
5. M. Tudor
6. Daniel Guyomar
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In Mechanical Engineering

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4. Tuna Balkan
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6. M. Tudor
7. Amen Agbossou
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Citations in the corpus

• Cantilever-based electret energy harvesters (2011, unknown): “Many electret-based energy harvesters have been dev elop d and have proven the interest of such devices [2-22].”
• Nonlinear Behavior of an Electrostatic Energy Harvester Under Wide- and Narrowband Excitation (2010, methodology): “By itself, this gives nonlinearities in the electromechanical coupling that could be important [ 23 ], [24].”
• 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].”
• Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications (2006, methodology): “4 Silicon LETI (F) Peano [111] 50a 911 164 – – Silicon Turin Polytecnicoo (I)”
• On thermoelectric and pyroelectric energy harvesting (2009, background): “The work against the electrostatic force between the plates provides the harvested energy [4].”
• Energy Harvesters Driven by Broadband Random Vibrations (2008, background): “For example, the electrostatic harvester analyzed in [13] maps onto our model for small excitations and symmetric loading.”
• Energy Scavenging From Low-Frequency Vibrations by Using Frequency Up-Conversion for Wireless Sensor Applications (2008, background): “Environmental vibration is a particularly attractive energy source because of its abundance, and several scavenging techniques based on piezoelectric [2]–[6], electrostatic [7]–[14] and electromagnetic (EM) transduction [15]–[20] have been reported.”