Energy harvesting
Subtitle: materials, physics, and system design with practical examples
By: Ravi Anant Kishore [and 4 others]
Publisher: DEStech Publications
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781523124848; 9781605951225
Subjects: Energy harvesting; Récupération d'énergie
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview of Energy Harvesting; title: 1.1. Introduction to Energy Harvesting; title: 1.2. Vibration Energy Harvesting; title: 1.3. Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting; title: 1.4. Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting; title: 1.5. Wind Energy Harvesting; title: 1.6. Introduction to Electrical Energy Conditioning and Storage; title: 2. Inductive Energy Harvesting; title: 2.1. Inductive: History and Need; title: 2.2. Background Physics; title: 2.3. Inductive Harvester Design; title: 2.4. Modeling of Inductive Harvesters; title: 2.5. Modeling of the Direct Vibration Harvester; title: 2.6. Strategies for Optimizing the Figure of Merit; title: 2.7. Review of the State-of-the-Art; title: 2.8. Future Directions; title: 3. Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting; title: 3.1. Piezoelectric Materials: History and Fundamentals; title: 3.2. Lead-free Piezoelectric Materials; title: 3.3. Equivalent Circuit Analysis for Piezoelectrics; title: 3.4. Materials for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting; title: 3.5. Mode of Vibration for Harvesting; title: 3.6. Continuous System; title: 3.7. Energy Harvesting using Low Profile Piezoelectric Transducers; title: 3.8. Distributed Parameter Model of Piezoelectric Bimorph Cantilever Beam; title: 3.9. Impedance Matching; title: 3.10. Piezoelectric MEMS Energy Harvesters; title: 4. Magnetostrictive and Magnetoelectric Energy Harvesting; title: 4.1. Magnetostrictive: History and Need; title: 4.2. Background Physics; title: 4.3. Magnetostrictive Vibration Harvester Design; title: 4.4. Modeling of Magnetostrictive Harvesters; title: 4.5. Strategies for Optimizing the Figure of Merit; title: 4.6. Magnetoelectric Effect; title: Fundamentals and Material Design; title: 4.7. Magnetoelectric Energy Harvesting; title: 4.8. Future Directions; title: 5. Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting; title: 5.1. Thermoelectrics: History and Need; title: 5.2. Background Physics; title: 5.3. Semiconductors and Thermoelectrics; title: 5.4. Strategies for Optimizing Figure of Merit (ZT); title: 5.5. Thermoelectric Materials; title: 5.6. Thermoelectric Generator; title: 5.7. Microfabricated Energy Harvesting; title: 5.8. NASA Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG); title: 5.9. Other Applications; title: 5.10. New Directions for Low-Dimensional Thermoelectric Materials; title: 6. Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting; title: 6.1. Photovoltaics: History and Relevance; title: 6.2. Physics of Solar Cells; title: 6.3. Solar Cell Design and Strategies for Optimizing Figure of Merit; title: 6.4. Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells; title: 6.5. Thin Film Solar Cells; title: 6.6. Emerging Photovoltaic Cells; title: 6.7. Multi-Junction Solar Cells; title: 6.8. Conclusion and Outlook; title: 7. Wind Energy Harvesting; title: 7.1. Wind: History and Need; title: 7.2. Background Physics; title: 7.3. Wind Harvester Design; title: 7.4. Modeling of Wind Energy Harvesters; title: 7.5. Strategies for Optimizing the Wind Turbine Efficiency; title: 7.6. Review of the State-of-the-Art and Future Trends; title: 8. Alternative Energy Harvesting Approaches; title: 8.1. Shape Memory Alloy Heat Engine; title: 8.2. Thermomagnetic Energy Harvesting; title: 8.3. Electrostatic Energy Harvesting.