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Book Description

For decades, people have searched for ways to harvest energy from natural sources. Lately, a desire to address the issue of global warming and climate change has popularized solar or photovoltaic technology, while piezoelectric technology is being developed to power handheld devices without batteries, and thermoelectric technology is being explored to convert wasted heat, such as in automobile engine combustion, into electricity.

Featuring contributions from international researchers in both academics and industry, Energy Harvesting with Functional Materials and Microsystems explains the growing field of energy harvesting from a materials and device perspective, with resulting technologies capable of enabling low-power implantable sensors or a large-scale electrical grid.

In addition to the design, implementation, and components of energy-efficient electronics, the book covers current advances in energy-harvesting materials and technology, including:

  • High-efficiency solar technologies with lower cost than existing silicon-based photovoltaics
  • Novel piezoelectric technologies utilizing mechanical energy from vibrations and pressure
  • The ability to harness thermal energy and temperature profiles with thermoelectric materials

Whether you’re a practicing engineer, academician, graduate student, or entrepreneur looking to invest in energy-harvesting devices, this book is your complete guide to fundamental materials and applied microsystems for energy harvesting.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. The Editors
  7. The Contributors
  8. 1 Powering Microsystems with Ambient Energy
  9. 2 Low-Power Energy Harvesting Solutions for Biomedical Devices
  10. 3 Energy Harvesting Thermoelectric and Microsystems Perspectives and Opportunities and Opportunities
  11. 4 Thermopower Wave-Based Micro-and Nanoscale Energy Sources
  12. 5 Polymer Solar Cells An Energy Source for Low-Power Consumption Electronics
  13. 6 Inverted Organic Solar Cells
  14. 7 Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cell Optimization and Modeling
  15. 8 Piezoelectric Thin Films and Their Application to Vibration Energy Harvesters
  16. 9 Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters Modeling, Design, Limits, and Benchmarking
  17. Index
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