Energy Harvesting Technologies and Power Management for IoT Devices

Introduction – Energy sources – energy harvesting based sensor networks –photovoltaic cell technologies – generation of electric power in semiconductor PV cells – types

Piezoelectric materials – transducers – harvesters – microgenerators – strategies for enhancing the performance of energy harvesters. Electromechanical modeling of Lumped parameter model and coupled distributed parameter models and closed-form Solutions

Basic principles – micro fabricated coils and magnetic materials – scaling – power maximations – micro and macro scale implementations. Non-linear techniques –vibration control & steady state cases

Power sources for WSN – Power generation – conversion – examples – case studies. Harvesting microelectronic circuits – power conditioning and losses

Case studies for Implanted medical devices – Bio-MEMS based applications – harvesting for RF sensors and ID tags – powering wireless SHM sensor nodes