Fabrication and test of integrated micro-scale vibration based electromagnetic generator

  • Santosh Kulkarni
  • , Elena Koukharenko
  • , John Tudor
  • , Steve Beeby
  • , Terence O'Donnell
  • , Saibal Roy

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Abstract

This paper discusses the design, fabrication and testing of electromagnetic microgenerators on silicon. Two different designs of power generators are micro-fabricated, Prototype A having a wire-wound copper coil and Prototype B, an electrodeposited copper coil both on a Deep Reactive Ion etched (DRIE) silicon paddle. The devices were fabricated using standard Micro-Electro- Mechanical Systems (MEMS) processing techniques. For Prototype A, the maximum measured power output was 148 nW at 8.08 kHz resonant frequency and 3.9 m/s 2 acceleration. For prototype B, the microgenerator gave a maximum load power of 23 nW for an acceleration of 9.8 m/s2, at a resonant frequency of 9.83 kHz.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems
Pages879-882
Number of pages4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - Lyon, France
Duration: 10 Jun 200714 Jun 2007

Publication series

NameTRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Conference

Conference4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period10/06/0714/06/07

Keywords

  • Energy harvesting from vibrations
  • MEMS fabrication techniques
  • Micro-fabricated electromagnetic power generator

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