TITLE:

Energy Harvesting

DATE:

Friday, February 14th, 2014

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Dr. Antonio Palacios. Department of Mathematics at San Diego State University

ABSTRACT:

Energy harvesting devices are key to a wide range of technologies: wireless sensor

networks, micro wind turbine, thermoelectric generators, health monitoring systems,

human-generated power devices for biomedical applications, and, of course, consumer

products such as automatic wristwatches and TV remote controls, to the computer cloud.

In recent years arrays of multiple harvesters have gained consideration as a viable solution

to increase power output beyond the fundamental limits of energy that can be generated

and stored with a single device. In this work, analytical and computational studies of the

collective response of 1D arrays of coupled vibratory energy harvesting systems are

presented. The aim is to close the gap between theory and device realization of

meso-scale and micro-scale arrays of energy harvesters with power output, at least, in

the order of 1 milliwatt and 100 microwatts, respectively.

HOST:

Dr. Jose Castillo

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