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Triboelectric effect to harness fluid flow energy

Danick Briand, Rubaiyet Iftekharul Haque, Amr Yehia Hussien Mahmoud Arafat

We are reporting energy scavenging from fluid flows inside tubular structures using triboelectric effects. Two separate designs of triboelectric generators are proposed. A tubular design that uses liquid-solid interaction mechanism for water, and freestand ...

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Adaptive Receiver Design for High Speed Optical Communication

Ilter Ozkaya

Conventional input/output (IO) links consume power, independent of changes in the bandwidth demand by the system they are deployed in. As the system is designed to satisfy the peak bandwidth demand, most of the time the IO links are idle but still consumin ...

EPFL2018

A review of sustainable energy access and technologies for healthcare facilities in the Global South

Silvia Hostettler, Andrea Franco, Marjan Shaker, Dikolela Kalubi

Access to reliable, affordable and sustainable energy is essential for improving living standards, development and economic growth. From a healthcare perspective, energy is a critical parameter for delivering and improving healthcare services and life-savi ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Medium Voltage DC-DC Converter for Power Collection Links

Gina Kristin Steinke

Nowadays electrical energy generation is an important topic discussed in the society. Since technologies like wind or solar energy generation are most of the time placed far away from the city centres one point to focus on is the transmission of the energy ...

EPFL2017

Ultra Low-Power Frequency Synthesizers for Duty Cycled IoT radios

Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

Internet of Things (IoT), which is one of the main talking points in the electronics industry today, consists of a number of highly miniaturized sensors and actuators which sense the physical environment around us and communicate that information to a cent ...

EPFL2016

Penciling A Triboelectric Power Source On Paper

Jürgen Brugger, Xiao Sheng Zhang

We present a novel triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a paper-Teflon configuration fabricated by an easy and cost-efficient process. Carbon electrodes were hand-drawn by means of a graphite pencil on commercial paper cards, and the conductivity wa ...

Ieee2016

Dielectric Elastomers as EAPs: How to start experimenting with them

Herbert Shea, Jun Shintake

As can be seen from the large number of videos of home-made dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) on YouTube, getting started making DEAs is straightforward and can be done at low cost. This chapter provides information on making two types of basic dielect ...

Springer2016

Dielectric elastomer generators that stack up

Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This paper reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a soft dielectric elastomer power generator with a volume of less than 1 cm3. The generator is well suited to harvest energy from ambient and from human body motion as it can harvest from low frequ ...

Institute of Physics2015

Editorial

Mario Paolone

Fundamental changes are currently taking place in mod- ern energy systems and, particularly, in electrical ones. Infras- tructures have to satisfy conflicting requirements: providing reliable and secure services to an increasing number of customers, taking ...

2015

Model-based Rendezvous Calibration of Mobile Sensor Networks for Monitoring Air Quality

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Adrian Arfire

Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) hold the potential to constitute a real game changer for our understanding of urban air pollution, through a significant augmentation of spatial resolution in measurement. However, temporal drift, crosssensitivity and ...

2015