Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 2010 IEEE 23rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wanchai, Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5761-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1084-6999
DOI :
10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442539
