Metamaterial Concentrator for Thermal Energy Harvester

Strategies for Wideband Mechanical Energy Harvester

Electrostatic Swing Energy Harvester

Generation of the electric power by permanently polarized (electret containing) capacitor is analyzed and investigated in the matter of energy harvesting from oscillations and rotation. Experimentally demonstrated the generation of short high-voltage (up to 1 MV) pulses or low voltage (few volts) alternating current that can be rectified and stored.

Tailoring photonic metamaterial resonances for thermal radiation

Selective solar absorbers generally have limited effectiveness in unconcentrated sunlight, because of reradiation losses over a broad range of wavelengths and angles. However, metamaterials offer the potential to limit radiation exchange to a proscribed range of angles and wavelengths, which has the potential to dramatically boost performance. After globally optimizing one particular class of s...

Autonomous Wireless Heat Energy Meter based on Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Heat Energy Measurement in Building Complexes

This paper presents a platform for power autonomous wireless energy meter device using piezoelectric energy harvesters. This device can be mainly used for measuring the share of heat energy consumption in a fair manner in building complex with central heat energy system. In the suggested device, the piezoelectric energy harvester is also used as a flow-meter to reduce the power consumption of t...

Kinetic Energy Harvester for Body Motion

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a permanent-magnet energy harvester generator for body motion. The described generator was capable to extract up to 117μW of power from walking, employing a non-resonant rotational mechanism. The planar generator proposed is composed of a rotor having multiple NdFeB permanent magnet pole-pairs with an eccentric proof mass. The stator ha...