Sentences with phrase «energy harvesters»

Energy Harvesters will combine engineering and construction skills to explore alternative forms of energy.

For example, the structures could be used to create small - scale thermal energy harvesters, which could scavenge energy lost in microelectronic devices.

Again, because these materials act as soft capacitors, variable - capacitance power generators and energy harvesters can be built from them.

But as firms start to test their wave - energy harvesters in the open ocean that could be about to change.

But the various types of energy harvesters developed so far generate mere microwatts to hundreds of milliwatts of power, well below the amount needed to recharge a typical portable electronics battery.

This technology could facilitate the use of self - powered flexible energy harvesters, not only prolonging the lifetime of cardiac pacemakers but also realizing real - time heart monitoring.

But this is hardly practical, for one because earthquakes rarely happen in a predictable manner let alone in the exact spots where energy harvesters would have set up their gear.

Dagdeviren's energy harvester is built on a flexible foundation.

One type of energy harvester, and an inspiration for the new work, is known as an electrostatic capacitor.

This picture shows that a self - powered cardiac pacemaker is enabled by a flexible piezoelectric energy harvester.

A hydrogen fuel mini cell and a kinetic energy harvester are two new smart phone chargers debuting in 2012.

Battery - powered devices could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a group of UK researchers who have created a novel energy harvester to power some of the latest wearable gadgets.

The team has created an energy harvester out of fish scales that could be used in self - powered electronics.

In a new technology breakthrough, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed the first self - charging power cell that is both a mechanical energy harvester and a battery at the same time.

Not exact matches

The experiment showed that the laser pulse created an energy oscillation in the harvester that lingered for longer than either model would predict.

The «twistron harvester» generates power at the highest rates for energy harvesting yet, so may finally live up to the technique's century - long promise

Now, Kui Yao and co-workers from the A * STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore have discovered a way to give lightweight polymer vibration harvesters a hundredfold boost in energy output — a finding that may help to eliminate manual battery recharging in microsensors and mobile devices.

Ocean waves, for instance, provide too little energy for traditional harvesters.

I have studied natural and artificial molecular light - harvesters, in particular, the role of electronic - vibrational interaction in energy and charge transport.

They used an NFC tag that includes a wireless power harvester microchip and 1mAh battery (to capture and store the energy).

This is a single - pass, cut - and - chip harvester reaping fast - growing willow for a carbon - neutral biomass plant, part of Germany's Energiewende or «energy turnaround.»

They have yet to explain how our massive fleet of planes, trains, tractors, harvesters, trucks, road trains, container - ships and submarines will be powered and lubricated by windmills, treadmills, windlasses, solar energy, distilled whiskey and water wheels.

IT is cheaper and more efficient to invest in trees and plants that are natural CO2 harvesters than relying on energy dependent mechanical technology.