Design of Miniaturized Variable-Capacitance Electrostatic Energy Harvesters, 1st ed. 2022

This book provides readers with an overview of kinetic energy harvesting systems, their applications, and a detailed discussion of circuit design of variable-capacitance electrostatic harvesters. The authors describe challenges that need to be overcome when designing miniaturized kinetic energy harvesting systems, along with practical design considerations demonstrated through case studies of developing electrostatic energy harvesting systems.

The book also,

• Discusses the subject of Miniaturized Variable-Capacitance Electrostatic Energy Harvesters from both a theoretical and practical/experimental point of view.
• Describes detailed circuit designs for developing miniaturized electrostatic harvesters.
• Includes a comprehensive comparison framework for evaluating electrostatic harvesters, enabling readers to select which harvesters are best suited for a particular application.

Introduction.- Kinetic energy harvesting systems overview.- Electrostatic harvesters overview and applications.- Variable capacitors, their implementation flexibility and employed technologies.- Electrostatic switched-capacitor harvesters.- Asynchronous electrostatic harvesters.- Electrostatic harvesters with inductor.- Comprehensive comparison framework and optimization under application’s constraints.

Seyed Hossein Daneshvar received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include the field of energy harvesting, ultra-low power sensor interface circuits, and miniature generators for powering bio-implantable devices, and sensor networks.

Mehmet Rasit Yuce is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University, Australia. He received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC in December 2004. In July 2011, he joined Monash University. His research interests include wearable devices, Internet-of-Things (IoT) for healthcare, wireless implantable telemetry, wireless body area network (WBAN), bio-sensors, integrated circuit technology dealing with digital, analog and radio frequency circuit designs for wireless, biomedical, and RF applications. Dr. Yuce has published more than 170 technical articles in the above areas and received a NASA group achievement award in 2007 for developing an SOI transceiver. He received a best journal paper award in 2014 from the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTTS). He is a senior member of IEEE. He is a topical editor for IEEE Sensors Journal, an editor-in-chief for Sensors, and a guest editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics in 2015.

Jean-Michel Redouté (M’09-SM’12) received the degree of M. S. in electronics at the University College in Antwerp (1998), and the degree of M. Eng. in electrical engineering at the University of Brussels (2001). In August 2001, he started working at Al