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A Planar Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester with a Halbach Array

A Planar Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester with a Halbach Array
A Planar Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester with a Halbach Array
This paper presents a low-profile, planar electromagnetic vibration energy harvester integrated with a Halbach array. Halbach array is a special arrangement of permanent magnets that doubles the magnetic field on one side of the array while cancelling the field to near zero on the other side. Using this arrangement can improve electromagnetic coupling in a limited space. The energy harvester has a resonant frequency of 44.9Hz and generated an average power of over 120µW when excited at 0.3g (1g = 9.8m•s-2). The electromagnetic vibration energy harvester reported here is only 4mm thick, which makes it one of the thinnest electromagnetic energy harvesters among existing non-MEMS devices.
Zhu, Dibin
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Beeby, Steve
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Tudor, John
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Harris, Nick
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Zhu, Dibin
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Zhu, Dibin, Beeby, Steve, Tudor, John and Harris, Nick (2011) A Planar Electromagnetic Vibration Energy Harvester with a Halbach Array. PowerMEMS 2011, Seoul, Korea. 15 - 18 Nov 2011.

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This paper presents a low-profile, planar electromagnetic vibration energy harvester integrated with a Halbach array. Halbach array is a special arrangement of permanent magnets that doubles the magnetic field on one side of the array while cancelling the field to near zero on the other side. Using this arrangement can improve electromagnetic coupling in a limited space. The energy harvester has a resonant frequency of 44.9Hz and generated an average power of over 120µW when excited at 0.3g (1g = 9.8m•s-2). The electromagnetic vibration energy harvester reported here is only 4mm thick, which makes it one of the thinnest electromagnetic energy harvesters among existing non-MEMS devices.

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Published date: November 2011
Additional Information: Event Dates: November 15 - 18
Venue - Dates: PowerMEMS 2011, Seoul, Korea, 2011-11-15 - 2011-11-18
Organisations: EEE

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Local EPrints ID: 273016
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/273016
PURE UUID: 32395049-f654-4e2c-b94f-1cf78db2f565
ORCID for Dibin Zhu: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0517-3974
ORCID for Steve Beeby: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-1759
ORCID for John Tudor: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1179-9455
ORCID for Nick Harris: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4122-2219

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Date deposited: 18 Nov 2011 00:29
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:46

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Author: Dibin Zhu ORCID iD
Author: Steve Beeby ORCID iD
Author: John Tudor ORCID iD
Author: Nick Harris ORCID iD

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