MEMS energy harvester for wireless biosensors

Author

He, Cairan ; Kiziroglou, Michail E. ; Yates, David C. ; Yeatman, Eric M.

Author_Institution

Imperial Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

24-28 Jan. 2010

Firstpage

172

Lastpage

175

Abstract

This paper reports a motion energy harvester integrated with a battery-less wireless transmitter, and the successful transmission of low power pulses representing sensor data. An electrostatic harvester, primed by voltage representing sensor data, delivers output pulses to a resonant transmitter with an integrated antenna. This is the first ever reported demonstration, to our knowledge, of wireless sensor transmission solely powered by MEMS energy harvesting devices.

Keywords

antennas; bioMEMS; biosensors; energy harvesting; microsensors; radio transmitters; resonance; wireless sensor networks; MEMS energy harvester; battery-less wireless transmitter; electrostatic harvester; integrated antenna; low power pulses; motion energy harvester; resonant transmitter; sensor data; wireless biosensor; wireless sensor transmission; Batteries; Biosensors; Damping; Electrostatics; Mechanical sensors; Micromechanical devices; Receiving antennas; Resonance; Voltage; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2010 IEEE 23rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wanchai, Hong Kong

ISSN

1084-6999

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5761-8

Electronic_ISBN

1084-6999

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442539

Filename

5442539