Implantable medical devices have been implemented to provide treatment and to assess in
vivo physiological information in humans as well as animal models for medical diagnosis …

The next generation of electronics technology is purely going to be based on wearable
sensing systems. Wearable electronic sensors that can operate in a continuous and …

MEMS technology and applications have grown at a tremendous pace, while structural
dimensions have grown smaller and smaller, reaching down even to the molecular level …

Power consumption is forecast by the International Technology Roadmap of
Semiconductors (ITRS) to pose long-term technical challenges for the semiconductor …

Historically, batteries have been the source of energy for most mobile, embedded and
remote system applications. Now, with ubiquitous computing requirements in the fields of …

A new class of vibration energy harvester based on magnetostrictive material (MsM),
Metglas 2605SC, is designed, developed and tested. It contains two submodules: an MsM …

We present a new architecture for wideband vibration-based micro-power generators
(MPGs). It replaces a linear oscillator with a piecewise-linear oscillator as the energy …

Recently, there have been notable advancements in energy harvesting from various
sources, including mechanical vibrations, thermal gradients, and electromagnetic and solar …

Autonomous MEMS require similarly miniaturized power sources. In this paper, we present
the first working three-dimensional (3-D) rechargeable Li-ion thin-film microbattery …

In recent years, betavoltaic batteries have become an ideal power source for micro
electromechanical systems. Betavoltaic battery is a device that converts the decay energy of …