TY  - CHAP
AU  - Swee Leong Kok
ED  - Yen Kheng Tan
Y1  - 2011-12-22
PY  - 2011
T1  - Energy Harvesting Technologies: Thick-Film Piezoelectric Microgenerator
N2  - In the early 21st century, research and development of sustainable energy harvesting (EH) technologies have started. Since then, many EH technologies have evolved, advanced and even been successfully developed into hardware prototypes for sustaining the operational lifetime of low?power electronic devices like mobile gadgets, smart wireless sensor networks, etc. Energy harvesting is a technology that harvests freely available renewable energy from the ambient environment to recharge or put used energy back into the energy storage devices without the hassle of disrupting or even discontinuing the normal operation of the specific application. With the prior knowledge and experience developed over a decade ago, progress of sustainable EH technologies research is still intact and ongoing. EH technologies are starting to mature and strong synergies are formulating with dedicate application areas. To move forward, now would be a good time to setup a review and brainstorm session to evaluate the past, investigate and think through the present and understand and plan for the future sustainable energy harvesting technologies.
BT  - Sustainable Energy Harvesting Technologies
SP  - Ch. 8
UR  - https://doi.org/10.5772/25547
DO  - 10.5772/25547
SN  - 
PB  - IntechOpen
CY  - Rijeka
Y2  - 2024-04-19
ER  -