Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics
Impact-enhanced Electrostatic Vibration Energy Harvester
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Semiconductor Devices and Microelectronics, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Karl Marx Avenue 20, Novosibirsk, 630073, Russia
2 Department of Computer Science in Economics, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Karl Marx Avenue 20, Novosibirsk, 630073, Russia
Abstract
An influence of mechanical impacts between variable capacitor electrodes on the electrostatic vibration energy harvester (e-VEH) operation is studied theoretically. The analysis is carried out for two conditioning circuits with parallel and serial load connection. A relationship between e-VEH parameters and external mechanical force characteristics enabling to assess the possibility of operation in a periodic impact mode is obtained. Dependences of the average power generated by the impact-enhanced e-VEH versus the number of collisions between the electrodes and the load resistor value are calculated. The operation of the harvester for two circuits in impact and non-impact modes is compared and analyzed. It is shown that the average power generated by the e-VEH for the impact mode can exceed the power for the non-impact mode by 1–2 orders of magnitude along with a significant decrease of the harvester optimal load resistance.
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