Mallick, D;Amann, A;Roy, S

15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MICRO AND NANOTECHNOLOGY FOR POWER GENERATION AND ENERGY CONVERSION APPLICATIONS (POWERMEMS 2015)

MEMS based Nonlinear Monostable Electromagnetic Vibrational Energy Harvester for Wider Bandwidth

2015

January

Validated

1

WOS: 1 ()

This paper reports a wideband vibrational energy harvesting scheme using a MEMS based nonlinear electromagnetic transducer. The nonlinearity is incorporated in the proposed device through the stretching strain in addition to the bending of the fixed-guided configured beams of the designed structure. The thin spring structure is fabricated on Silicon-On-Insulator substrate with device layer thickness of 50 mu m. The MEMS spring structure is packaged and characterized with wire wound copper coil (NE1) and micro fabricated double layer copper coil (NE2) for comparison. Measurement results show that similar to 80 Hz half power bandwidth is obtained for the fabricated devices with maximum load powers of 2.8 mu W (NE1) and 0.4 mu W (NE2) respectively at 0.5g which improves the 'power-bandwidth gain' to one of the highest among reported works.

10.1088/1742-6596/660/1/012115