Frequency adjustable MEMS vibration energy harvester

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dc.contributor.authorPodder, Pranay
dc.contributor.authorConstantinou, Peter
dc.contributor.authorAmann, Andreas
dc.contributor.authorRoy, Saibal
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-22T16:10:25Z
dc.date.available2016-11-22T16:10:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.date.updated2016-11-22T14:50:52Z
dc.description.abstractAmbient mechanical vibrations offer an attractive solution for powering the wireless sensor nodes of the emerging "Internet-of-Things". However, the wide-ranging variability of the ambient vibration frequencies pose a significant challenge to the efficient transduction of vibration into usable electrical energy. This work reports the development of a MEMS electromagnetic vibration energy harvester where the resonance frequency of the oscillator can be adjusted or tuned to adapt to the ambient vibrational frequency. Micro-fabricated silicon spring and double layer planar micro-coils along with sintered NdFeB micro-magnets are used to construct the electromagnetic transduction mechanism. Furthermore, another NdFeB magnet is adjustably assembled to induce variable magnetic interaction with the transducing magnet, leading to significant change in the spring stiffness and resonance frequency. Finite element analysis and numerical simulations exhibit substantial frequency tuning range (25% of natural resonance frequency) by appropriate adjustment of the repulsive magnetic interaction between the tuning and transducing magnet pair. This demonstrated method of frequency adjustment or tuning have potential applications in other MEMS vibration energy harvesters and micromechanical oscillators.en
dc.description.sponsorshipScience Foundation Ireland (SFI Principal Investigator (PI)project on ‘Vibrational Energy Harvesting’ grant no. SFI-11/PI/1201.)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationPodder, P. Constantinou, P., Amann, A, and Roy, S. (2016) 'Frequency adjustable MEMS vibration energy harvester', Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 757, 012037 (6pp). doi: 10.1088/1742-6596/757/1/012037en
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1742-6596/757/1/012037
dc.identifier.endpage012037-6en
dc.identifier.issn1742-6588
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Physics: Conference Seriesen
dc.identifier.startpage012037-1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/3305
dc.identifier.volume757en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen
dc.rights© 2016, The Authors. Published under licence in Journal of Physics: Conference Series by IOP Publishing Ltd. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.en
dc.subjectMicro-mechanical oscillatorsen
dc.subjectInternet-of-Thingsen
dc.subjectMEMS vibration energy harvestersen
dc.subjectElectrical energyen
dc.titleFrequency adjustable MEMS vibration energy harvesteren
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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