News tagged with piezoelectric harvesting device

Giant piezoelectric effect to improve MEMS devices

Researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Materials Research Institute at Penn State are part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers from universities and national laboratories ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor

For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1




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Researchers generate electricity from viruses

Imagine charging your phone as you walk, thanks to a paper-thin generator embedded in the sole of your shoe. This futuristic scenario is now a little closer to reality. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Analyzing energy potential

Sensors, radio transmitters and GPS modules all feature low power consumption. All it takes is a few milliwatts to run them. Energy from the environment - from sources such as light or vibrations - may be enough to meet these ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene

In what became known as the 'Scotch tape technique," researchers first extracted graphene with a piece of adhesive in 2004. Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb, hexagonal pattern. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

UK scientists develop optimum piezoelectric energy harvesters

Scientists working as part of the Metrology for Energy Harvesting Project have developed a new model to deliver the maximum power output for piezoelectric energy harvesters.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Heart-powered pacemaker could one day eliminate battery-replacement surgery

A new power scheme for cardiac pacemakers turns to an unlikely source: vibrations from heartbeats themselves.

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

New technique produces free-standing piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures from PZT material

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a “soft template infiltration” technique for fabricating free-standing piezoelectrically active ferroelectric nanotubes and other nanostructures from PZT ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Wringing more energy out of everyday motions

Randomness and chaos in nature, as it turns out, can be a good thing – especially if you are trying to harvest energy from the movements of everyday activities like walking.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Powering pacemakers with heartbeat vibrations

Sick hearts may help to keep themselves beating longer with a device that could harvest energy from heartbeat-induced chest cavity vibrations.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Imec presents a MEMS energy harvester suitable for shock-induced energy harvesting in car tires

Imec and Holst Centre announce that they have made a micromachined harvester for vibration energy with a record output power of 489µW. Measurements and simulation show that the harvester is also suited ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Award-winning energy harvester brings practical applications closer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Although the idea of harvesting ambient energy from the environment and using it to generate electricity is alluring, most of the technology so far is capable of generating only very small ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 12 | with audio podcast report


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