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Electrical Equivalent Modeling of the Reverse Electrowetting-on-Dielectric (REWOD) Based Transducer along with Highly Efficient Energy Harvesting Circuit Design towards Self-Powered Motion Sensor

Among various energy harvesting technologies reverse electrowetting-on-dielectric energy harvesting (REWOD) has been proved to harvest energy from low frequency motion such as many human motion activities (e.g. walking, running, jogging etc.). Voltage rectification and DC-DC boosting of low magnitude AC voltage from REWOD can be used to reliably self-power the wearable sensors. In this work, a commercial component-based rectifier and DC-DC converter is designed and experimentally verified, for further miniaturization standard 180 nm CMOS process is used to design the rectifier and the DC-DC boost converter.This work also includes the MATLAB based model for REWOD energy harvester for various REWOD models. In REWOD energy harvesting, a mechanical input during the motion causes the electrolyte placed in between two dissimilar electrodes to squeeze back and forth thereby periodically changing the effective interfacial area, hence generating alternating current. The alternating current is given to the rectifier design. There is no realistic model that has been developed yet for this technique. Thereby, a MATLAB based REWOD model is developed for the realistic simulation of the REWOD phenomenon. In the work, a comparison of different REWOD models such as planar surface, rough surface and porous models are performed demonstrating the variations in capacitance, current and voltage.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1833471
Date08 1900
CreatorsGunti, Avinash
ContributorsMahbub, Ifana, Namuduri, Kamesh, Sun, Hua
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatviii, 58 pages, Text
RightsPublic, Gunti, Avinash, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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