Lectures

Ausrine BARTASYTE
Associate Professor, FEMTO-ST, UFC of UBFC, Besançon France

Wednesday: Introduction to tensors, piezoelectricity, symmetry and ferroelectricity in bulk materials

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Wednesday: Piezoelectric thin films & nanostructures. Fabrication methods, structural and physical properties

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Paul MURALT
Adjunct Professor, SCI STI PM Group, EPFL, Lausanne Switzerland

Wednesday: Piezoelectric thin films growth methods & characterization methods

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Thursday: Piezoelectric transduction: vibrational energy harvesting by piezoelectric materials. Measurement of coupling in MEMS structures

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Paul MITCHESON
Professor, Imperial College London, London UK

Thursday - Fundamentals of Vibration Energy Harvesting

This tutorial will cover some of the basic physics and mathematical models of inertial energy harvesters including generator architectures, a primer on transducers and the fundamental limits.  We start by examining the simple “mass in a box” harvester model and compare the limits and practical issues relating to harvester realisation.  We also look at some of the performance metrics for harvesters, with a focus on a measure called harvester effectiveness.

Friday - Basics of Power Electronics

Power electronics need to be connected to energy harvesters to efficiently extract energy from the transduction mechanism and convert the energy from AC to a stable DC.  In this tutorial I will give a primer on power electronics fundamentals.  This will not be targeted on interfaces for specific transducers, but will cover more general information on rectifiers, switch mode power supplies, resonant circuits and power semiconductor devices.

Micky RAKOTONDRABE
Associate Professor, FEMTO-ST, UFC of UBFC, Besançon France

Thursday: Introduction to modeling and design methodologies for piezoelectirc energy harvesters

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Mickael LALLART
Associate Professor, INSA Lyon, Lyon France

Friday: Advanced electronic solutions for energy harvesting

Abstract: This lecture aims at exposing key points in the design of a global electrical interface for energy harvesting. This will include the energy extraction enhancement through nonlinear process, load adaptation and voltage regulation. Specifies of several typical conversion effect (for instance piezoelectric or electromagnetic for vibrational systems and thermoelectric or pyroelectric for thermal devices) will also be pointed out and included in the proposed circuits. All along the lecture, participants will be proposed to implement themselves the proposed architectures in a simulation software.