Energy Harvesting for Low Power Microcontrollers
Many microcontroller applications, such as remote sensing, have the requirement to be rugged, self contained, autonomous, long lived and low maintenance. To meet these requirements, it is desirable for the circuit to generate its own power from environmental sources and not rely on a battery that requires periodic replacement. This article explores energy harvesting from ambient light, heat and vibration sources to generate power for microcontroller or microprocessor circuits. Examples showing power conditioning and regulation for processors powered from solar cells, piezoelectric generators and thermoelectric generators are shown.
Scot Lester
Texas Instruments, USA
国际会议
The Seventh International PCIM China(第七届电子功率器件、智能传送、电源质量国际研讨会)
上海
英文
224-229
2008-03-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）