Yiannos Manoli: 3 books
Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvesting Devices
Architectures, Design, Modeling and Optimization
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Electromagnetic vibration transducers are seen as an effective way of harvesting ambient energy for the supply of sensor monitoring systems. Different electromagnetic coupling architectures have been employed but no comprehensive comparison with respect to their output performance has been carried...
CMOS Circuits for Electromagnetic Vibration Transducers
Interfaces for Ultra-Low Voltage Energy Harvesting
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Chip-integrated power management solutions are a must for ultra-low power systems. This enables not only the optimization of innovative sensor applications. It is also essential for integration and miniaturization of energy harvesting supply strategies of portable and autonomous monitoring systems.
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CMOS Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters
Efficient Power Extraction, Interface Modeling and Loss Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2014
This book deals with the challenge of exploiting ambient vibrational energy which can be used to power small and low-power electronic devices, e.g. wireless sensor nodes. Generally, particularly for low voltage amplitudes, low-loss rectification is required to achieve high conversion efficiency. In...