There are tricks to working with devices originally designed to be sensors rather than generators. Brian Shaffer Applications Manager - Boston Design Center Linear Technology Corp. It's hard not to ...

(A) Schematic diagram of the overall experimental setup. (B) The bees’ flight experiment box. (C) Photos of the experimental setup. (D) Schematic of the bees’ loading method and masses. CMOS, ...

Energy harvesting from the human body (approximately 100 W of consumption at rest) in various forms appears to be a near-perfect power source fit for implanted medical devices, but practical issues ...

Achieving so-called zero-power sensors will require harvesting energy from sources in the environment. After narrowing down one’s options to available sources, the next criteria will be the amount of ...

A 10-fold increase in the ability to harvest mechanical and thermal energy over standard piezoelectric composites may be possible using a piezoelectric ceramic foam supported by a flexible polymer ...

Energy harvesting is a very attractive power-source option, as at first it seems to offer the promise of never-ending “something for nothing.” In some cases, it delivers on that promise, and has been ...

There are untold energy sources all around us, if we can just figure out how to tap into them. Swiss researchers have now demonstrated an environmentally friendly way to make spongy wood flooring that ...

Car manufacturers have a problem when it comes to climate change. Among the variety of sources for extra atmospheric CO 2 their products are perhaps those most in the public eye, and consequently ...

Harvesting energy from the human body may sound scary, but fortunately a Matrix-style setup exists only as a cinematic fiction. Instead a typical path lies in external contraptions that use the body’s ...