Design and simulation of SOI-MEMS electrostatic vibration energy harvester for micro power generation

The micro power generation using vibration energy sources appears to be attractive due to its applicability on many situations and environmental conditions. The electrostatic energy harvester has various advantageous over piezoelectric and electromagnetic systems such as reduction in fabrication pro...

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Published inInternational Conference on Electrical, Control and Computer Engineering 2011 (InECCE) pp. 207 - 212
Main Authors Sidek, O., Khalid, Muhammad Afif, Ishak, M. Z., Miskam, M. A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.06.2011
Subjects
Acceleration
Batteries
Capacitance
electrostatic scavenger
Electrostatics
energy harvesting
energy scavenging
Sensitivity
Sensors
vibration to electricity conversion
Vibrations
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Summary:The micro power generation using vibration energy sources appears to be attractive due to its applicability on many situations and environmental conditions. The electrostatic energy harvester has various advantageous over piezoelectric and electromagnetic systems such as reduction in fabrication process complexity and cost, feasibility on MEMS and IC integration, improves the possibility level of integration with silicon based microelectronics and produce voltage within the usable range which can obviating the need of large and expensive generator. This paper presents the design and simulation of SOI-MEMS electrostatic vibration energy harvester using the architect module in CoventorWare2010. Simulation results shows that the newly proposed electrostatic energy harvesting system can produce maximum output power of 5.891μW when the excitation frequency is 2kHz.
ISBN:9781612842295
1612842291
DOI:10.1109/INECCE.2011.5953877