Optimized piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit using step-down converter in discontinuous conduction mode

By G. Ottman, Heath F. Hofmann, G. Lesieutre. 2002 IEEE 33rd Annual IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference. Proceedings (Cat. No.02CH37289), 2002

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

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In Biomedical Engineering

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2. Alper Erturk
3. Henry Sodano
4. S. Anton
5. Lihua Tang
6. Yaowen Yang
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8. Wei-Hsin Liao

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Daniel J. Inman
2. Alper Erturk
3. Henry Sodano
4. S. Anton
5. Adrien Badel
6. Lihua Tang
7. É. Lefeuvre
8. Yaowen Yang

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Daniel J. Inman
2. Alper Erturk
3. Henry Sodano
4. S. Anton
5. Lihua Tang
6. Yaowen Yang
7. Lei Zuo
8. Wei-Hsin Liao

Citations in the corpus

• Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting Circuit With Feedforward and Feedback DC–DC PWM Boost Converter for Vibration Power Generator System (2007, background): “To solve this power supply problem, the conversion of electrical energy from a vibrating source to a renewable storage device [8], [9],”
• Impedance Modeling and Analysis for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems (2012, background): “Early analyses modeled the piezoelectric structure as an ideal current source in parallel with the piezoelectric capacitance [10], [32], [46], [47].”
• Review of energy harvesting techniques and applications for microelectronics (Keynote Address) (2005, neutral): “Ottman et al.(33) presented a circuit that uses a switch-mode dc-dc converter after the tank capacitor.”
• Resistive Impedance Matching Circuit for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting (2010, methodology): “Ottman et al. (2002, 2003) presented an approach using buck converter as the second stage for power conditioning and the optimal rectified voltage was derived to maximize the power delivery.”
• Recent progress in blue energy harvesting for powering distributed sensors in ocean (2021, background): “So far, most of the research concentrated on the signal conditioning circuit, and energy harvesting has not received adequate attention [117, 122, 150-153].”
• A Review of Electric Impedance Matching Techniques for Piezoelectric Sensors, Actuators and Transducers (2019, neutral): “A combination of the bridge rectifier and step-down converter [155] and similar techniques have been reported to increase the conversion efficiency to about 92%.”
• Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Device Optimization by Synchronous Electric Charge Extraction (2005, methodology): “The harvested power is theoretically evaluated using an optimization principle that can be assimilated to a linear load impedance adaptation (Ottman et al., 2002, 2003).”
• Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems: A Topology Optimization Approach Based on Multilayer Plates and Shells (2009, background): “A number of authors (Ottman et al., 2002; Ottman et al., 2003; Lesieutre et al., 2004; Lefeuvre et al., 2005a, 2007; Shu and Lien, 2006a, b; Shu et al., 2007) provide sophisticated circuit designs for charging a battery with a piezoelectric energy harvester; Lefeuvre et al. (2005b) provide a…”
• A 1.9GHz RF Transmit Beacon using Environmentally Scavenged Energy (2003, methodology): “Finally, Ottman et al [10] have designed and optimized power circuitry to be used with a piezoelectric vibration based generator.”