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IBM Systems Journal
Vibration-to-electric energy conversion
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - Special issue on low power electronics and design
Energy Scavenging for Mobile and Wireless Electronics
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Design Considerations for Ultra-Low Energy Wireless Microsensor Nodes
IEEE Transactions on Computers
An Ultra Low Power System Architecture for Sensor Network Applications
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Self-timed circuits for energy harvesting AC power supplies
ISLPED '05 Proceedings of the 2005 international symposium on Low power electronics and design
CenWits: a sensor-based loosely coupled search and rescue system using witnesses
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
High damping electrostatic system for vibration energy scavenging
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Circuits for energy harvesting sensor signal processing
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Microelectronics Journal
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Proceedings of the 44th annual Design Automation Conference
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IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
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Nonlinear oscillations in a MEMS energy scavenger
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Advances in low power VLSI design, along with the potentially low duty cycle of wireless sensor nodes open up the possibility of powering small wireless computing devices from scavenged ambient power. A broad review of potential power scavenging technologies and conventional energy sources is first presented. Low-level vibrations occurring in common household and office environments as a potential power source are studied in depth. The goal of this paper is not to suggest that the conversion of vibrations is the best or most versatile method to scavenge ambient power, but to study its potential as a viable power source for applications where vibrations are present. Different conversion mechanisms are investigated and evaluated leading to specific optimized designs for both capacitive MicroElectroMechancial Systems (MEMS) and piezoelectric converters. Simulations show that the potential power density from piezoelectric conversion is significantly higher. Experiments using an off-the-shelf PZT piezoelectric bimorph verify the accuracy of the models for piezoelectric converters. A power density of 70 @mW/cm^3 has been demonstrated with the PZT bimorph. Simulations show that an optimized design would be capable of 250 @mW/cm^3 from a vibration source with an acceleration amplitude of 2.5 m/s^2 at 120 Hz.