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Energy Harvesting with Supercapacitor-Based Energy Storage

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Smart Sensors and Systems

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Harvesting energy from the environment is a desirable and increasingly important capability in several emerging applications of smart sensing systems. Due to the low-power characteristics of many smart-sensor systems, their energy harvesting systems (EHS) can achieve high efficiency by emphasizing low overhead in maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and the use of supercapacitors as a promising type of energy storage elements (ESE). Considerations in designing efficient charging circuitry for supercapacitors include leakage, residual energy, topology, energy density, and charge redistribution. This chapter first reviews ambient energy sources and their energy transducers for harvesting, followed by descriptions harvesters with low-overhead efficient charging circuitry and supercapacitor-based storage.

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  1. Dankook University, 119, Dandae-ro, Dongnam-gu, Cheonan-si, Chungnam, Republic of Korea

    Sehwan Kim

  2. University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697-2625, USA

    Pai H. Chou

  3. National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Pai H. Chou

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Kim, S., Chou, P.H. (2015). Energy Harvesting with Supercapacitor-Based Energy Storage. In: Lin, YL., Kyung, CM., Yasuura, H., Liu, Y. (eds) Smart Sensors and Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14711-6_10

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