Book description
For decades, people have sought to harvest energy from natural sources. Lately, climate change has popularized solar or photovoltaic technology, while piezoelectric technology is being developed to power handheld devices, and thermoelectric technology is being explored to convert wasted engine heat into electricity. Written by experts from academia and industry, Energy Harvesting with Functional Materials and Microsystems presents current research and explains the field from a materials and device perspective, with resulting technologies capable of enabling low-power implantable sensors or large-scale electrical grids.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- The Editors
- The Contributors
- 1 Powering Microsystems with Ambient Energy
- 2 Low-Power Energy Harvesting Solutions for Biomedical Devices
- 3 Energy Harvesting Thermoelectric and Microsystems Perspectives and Opportunities and Opportunities
- 4 Thermopower Wave-Based Micro-and Nanoscale Energy Sources
- 5 Polymer Solar Cells An Energy Source for Low-Power Consumption Electronics
- 6 Inverted Organic Solar Cells
- 7 Monocrystalline Silicon Solar Cell Optimization and Modeling
- 8 Piezoelectric Thin Films and Their Application to Vibration Energy Harvesters
- 9 Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters Modeling, Design, Limits, and Benchmarking
- Index
Product information
- Title: Energy Harvesting with Functional Materials and Microsystems
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2017
- Publisher(s): CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781351831666
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