INTRODUCTION TO MICRO ENERGY HARVESTING

Course Title: INTRODUCTION TO MICRO ENERGY HARVESTING

Course No. : ER 208             No.  of Credits: 3

Syllabus outline:

Introduction to micro energy harvesting. Micro energy harvesting using piezoelectric, triboelectric, electrostrictive, flexoelectric, and electrostatic electromechanical couplings. Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), nanogenerators, and sensors. Hydrovoltaic energy harvesting from water interaction with materials using water waving, evaporation, moisture, drawing, reverse electrodialysis, and reverse electrowetting processes. Pyroelectric, thermoelectric, magnetoelectric effects-based micro energy harvesting. Radio Frequency (RF) and non-RF micro energy harvesting. Materials in micro energy harvesting, roles of material design in the enhanced energy harvesting performance, basics of micro energy harvesting device fabrication, and applications of micro energy harvesting. Recent developments, renewability, and sustainability in micro energy harvesting.

Instructors

Dr. Farsa Ram.

Class Hours: TBA.