Energy Harvesting for Electronics with Thermoelectric Devices using Nanoscale Materials

Venkatasubramanian, R.; Watkins, Cynthia; Stokes, David L.; Posthill, J. B.; Caylor, Chris

doi:10.1109/iedm.2007.4418948

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“…While cost is a key parameter for large-scale photovoltaic generation, at the small scale of portable electronic devices this is less of an issue, and light availability is instead the key limitation. A wide range of work has also been presented on small-scale thermoelectric generation [20]- [23], and successful applications include the Seiko Thermic watch. 1 Temperature differences tend to be small over the miniature size scale associated with most harvesting applications, which leads to poor thermodynamic efficiency, but useful power levels can be captured from differences as little as a few degrees celsius.…”

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Energy Harvesting From Human and Machine Motion for Wireless Electronic Devices

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“…Such nanocomposites could allow for higher ZT values by reducing thermal conductivity while maintaining favorable electronic properties. With new higher efficiency materials, the field of harvesting waste energy through thermoelectric devices will become more prevalent [44][45][46][47].…”

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Energy Analyses of Thermoelectric Renewable Energy Sources

Jarman¹,

Khalil²,

Khalaf³

2013

OJEE

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The recent energy crisis and environmental burden are becoming increasingly urgent and drawing enormous attention to solar-energy utilization. Direct solar thermal power generation technologies, such as, thermoelectric, thermionic, magneto hydrodynamic, and alkali-metal thermoelectric methods, are among the most attractive ways to provide electric energy from solar heat. Direct solar thermal power generation has been an attractive electricity generation technology using a concentrator to gather solar radiation on a heat collector and then directly converting heat to electricity through a thermal electric conversion element. Compared with the traditional indirect solar thermal power technology utilizing a steam-turbine generator, the direct conversion technology can realize the thermal to electricity conversion without the conventional intermediate mechanical conversion process. The power system is, thus, easy to extend, stable to operate, reliable, and silent, making the method especially suitable for some small-scale distributed energy supply areas. Also, at some occasions that have high requirements on system stability, long service life, and noiselessness demand, such as military and deep-space exploration areas, direct solar thermal power generation has very attractive merit in practice. At present, the realistic conversion efficiency of direct solar thermal power technology is still not very high, mainly due to material restriction and inconvenient design. However, from the energy conversion aspect, there is no conventional intermediate mechanical conversion process in direct thermal power conversion, which therefore guarantees the enormous potential of thermal power efficiency when compared with traditional indirect solar thermal power technology [1].

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“…5 Methods to harvest power from ambient power sources (e.g., energy from body's motion, background RF power, thermal energy from body, and so on.) have been explored [6][7][8] but have very limited energy density for many implant applications. 9 Moreover, these systems need special materials and are difficult to integrate CMOS technology presently.…”

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Silicon-on-insulator-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor integrated optoelectronic platform for biomedical applications

Mujeeb-U-Rahman

Scherer

2016

J. Biomed. Opt

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Silicon-on-insulator-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor integrated optoelectronic platform for biomedical applications," J. Abstract. Microscale optical devices enabled by wireless power harvesting and telemetry facilitate manipulation and testing of localized biological environments (e.g., neural recording and stimulation, targeted delivery to cancer cells). Design of integrated microsystems utilizing optical power harvesting and telemetry will enable complex in vivo applications like actuating a single nerve, without the difficult requirement of extreme optical focusing or use of nanoparticles. Silicon-on-insulator (SOI)-based platforms provide a very powerful architecture for such miniaturized platforms as these can be used to fabricate both optoelectronic and microelectronic devices on the same substrate. Near-infrared biomedical optics can be effectively utilized for optical power harvesting to generate optimal results compared with other methods (e.g., RF and acoustic) at submillimeter size scales intended for such designs. We present design and integration techniques of optical power harvesting structures with complementary metal oxide semiconductor platforms using SOI technologies along with monolithically integrated electronics. Such platforms can become the basis of optoelectronic biomedical systems including implants and lab-on-chip systems.

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Energy Harvesting for Electronics with Thermoelectric Devices using Nanoscale Materials

Cited by 49 publications

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Energy Harvesting From Human and Machine Motion for Wireless Electronic Devices

Energy Harvesting From Human and Machine Motion for Wireless Electronic Devices

Energy Analyses of Thermoelectric Renewable Energy Sources

Silicon-on-insulator-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor integrated optoelectronic platform for biomedical applications

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