• DocumentCode
    2395176
  • Title

    Determining the Required Pulses for Controlling the Operation of Electrostatic MEMS Converters

  • Author

    Salem, Marwa S. ; Salem, Mona S. ; Zekry, A.A. ; Ragai, H.F.

  • Author_Institution
    ECE Dept., Ain Shams Univ.
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    Dec. 2006
  • Firstpage
    27
  • Lastpage
    30
  • Abstract
    The main objective of this paper is to determine the required controlling pulses which control the charging and the discharging operations of the electrostatic MEMS converter. These converters found in the energy scavenging system for wireless sensor nodes. To achieve this objective, a SPICE model for the converter is implemented in order to describe its behavior. Thus the required controlling pulses are determined by simulating the interaction between the converter model and the energy scavenging system
  • Keywords
    SPICE; convertors; electrostatic devices; micromechanical devices; SPICE model; electrostatic MEMS converters; energy scavenging system; wireless sensor nodes; Capacitance; Control systems; Electrostatics; Micromechanical devices; Power system modeling; SPICE; Solar energy; Very large scale integration; Vibrations; Wireless sensor networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    MEMS, NANO and Smart Systems, The 2006 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Cairo
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0899-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMENS.2006.348210
  • Filename
    4155227