The leadless pacemaker is the most recent pacemaker concept, developed to overcome
conventional pacemakers' limitations. This technology offers better comfort to the patients …

Electrostatic vibration energy harvesters (e-VEHs) are systems that convert part of their
surroundings' kinetic energy into electrical energy, in order to supply small-scale electronic …

The full architecture of an electrostatic kinetic energy harvester (KEH) based on the concept
of near-limits KEH is reported. This concept refers to the conversion of kinetic energy to …

We report an energy-autonomous Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) tag system which
is powered by an electrostatic MEMS-based Vibration Energy Harvester (e-VEH). The VEH …

Vibrational energy is an attractive power source for self-powered wireless sensors. A
mainstream harvesting technique for vibrational energy is electrostatic MEMS harvesters …

This thesis applies various nonlinear analysis techniques to reconstruct the qualitative and
quantitative characteristics of Kinetic Energy Harvesters (KEHs) and proposes methods to …

In all energy conversion systems and applications, efficiency is of major significance to
engineers. This study focuses on two alternative energy conversion systems to improve their …