Harvesting the Hidden Energy for Self-powered Systems

Hu, Youfan

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Publication date

January 2016

DOI

10.1109/nano.2016.7751302

Publisher

16th IEEE International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO)

Abstract

Energy harvesting technologies based on piezoelectric properties of nanomaterials and triboelectric phenomenon between two different materials are superior candidates for random mechanical energy harvesting in the environment. Self-powered system integrated with such kind of energy harvesting module and multi-functional nanodevices have great application potentials in the independent, sustainable, maintenance-free operations of implantable biosensors, remote and mobile environmental sensors, nanorobotics, microelectromechanical systems, and even portable/wearable personal electronics. Several recent progresses are summarized here.BES DOE [DE-FG02-07ER46394]; DARPA [HR0011-09-C-0142]; NSF [CMMI 0403671]; MURI from the AirforceCPCI-S(ISTP)y...