Project NEHSTech (2011-2013)
"Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Solutions for Micro- and Nano- Technologies"
Grant : FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
Project Goals
Results
Publications
Project Goals
Concept of the low frequency MEMS e-VEH.
Results
Pictures of a device of the first generation is shown below.
CAD drawing (a), Microscope photographs (b,c) of the low frequency MEMS e-VEH.
Preliminary tests using an external DC source for biasing the device
demonstrated a large bandwidth, even without the ball. With the ball,
the bandwidth is increased both at high and low frequencies.
Voltage (a) and harvested power (b) at 0.3 g under sinusoidal frequency up- and down-sweeps.
Voltage (a) and harvested power (b) at 0.3 g under sinusoidal frequency up- and down-sweeps.
Related
publications
Conferences
“Electrostatic generator with free micro-ball and eleastic
stoppers for low-frequency vibration energy harvesting”, F. Cottone, P. Basset, F. Marty, L. Gammaitoni
and T. Bourouina, Proc. of the 27th Int. Conf. on Micro
Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS’14),
San Francisco, USA, 2014
- “Combined electrical and mechanical nonlinearities in electrostatic vibration energy harvester”, P. Basset, F. Cottone and D. Galayko, Special issue of Nanoenergy Letters, no 6, pp. 39-40, Perugia, Italia, 2013
- “Non-linear MEMS electrostatic kinetic
energy harvester with a tunable multistable potential for stochastic
vibrations”, F. Cottone, P. Basset, R. Guillemet, D.
Galayko, F. Marty and T. Bourouina, Proc. of the 17th Int. Conf. on Solid-State Sensors,
Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers’13), Barcelona, Spain, 2013
- “Multiband vibration energy harvester based
on frequency-up conversion through a bistable multiple-mass system with buckled
beam”, F. Cottone, P. Basset, R. Guillemet, D.
Galayko, F. Marty and T. Bourouina, Proc. of the 26th
Int. Conf. on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS’13), Taipei, Taiwan, 2013
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