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ProfessorEricYeatman

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6204e.yeatman CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Anna McCormick +44 (0)20 7594 6189

 
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Location

 

610aElectrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Dicken:2009,
author = {Dicken, J and Mitcheson, PD and Stoianov, I and Yeatman, EM},
pages = {75--78},
title = {Increased Power Output from Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters by Pre-Biasing},
url = {http://cap.ee.ic.ac.uk/~pdm97/powermems/2009/},
year = {2009}
}
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This paper presents, for the first time, experimental results demonstrating a new approach to increasing the power output of piezoelectric energy harvesters by applying a bias charge at the beginning of each half cycle of motion. Ultimate power limits of inertial energy harvesters depend only on the device size and nature of the excitation, rather than on the transduction mechanism. However, practical devices generally perform well below the theoretical limit, often because a sufficiently high transducer damping force cannot be achieved. For suchcases, we show that the generator effectiveness is improved by a pre-biasing technique, and present simulationresults with experimental verification. These results show that the effectiveness of the piezoelectric generator isimproved by more than 10 times compared to an optimised purely resistive load. In practice our gains were limited by the voltage breakdown of the components used.
AU  - Dicken,J
AU  - Mitcheson,PD
AU  - Stoianov,I
AU  - Yeatman,EM
EP  - 78
PY  - 2009///
SN  - 2151-3155
SP  - 75
TI  - Increased Power Output from Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters by Pre-Biasing
UR  - http://cap.ee.ic.ac.uk/~pdm97/powermems/2009/
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/4420
ER  -
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