Energy Harvesting

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Year 2014

• X.-D. Do, H.-H. Nguyen, S.-K. Han, D.S. Ha, and S.-G. Lee, “A Self-Powered High-Efficiency Rectifier with Automatic Resetting of Transducer Capacitance in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 444-453, March 2015.
• Q. Brogan, T. O’Connor, and D.S. Ha, “Solar and Thermal Energy Harvesting with a Wearable Jacket,”International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1412 – 1425, June 2014.

Year 2013

• T. Guo, R. Kerley, and D.S. Ha, "Development of a Power Conditioning Circuit for Railcar Energy Harvesting," IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 513-516, August 2013.

Year 2012

• J. Turner, M.N. Ahmed, D.S. Ha, and P. Mattavelli, “A New Approach to the Wide Bandwidth of Piezoelectric Transducers for Vibration Energy Harvesting,” IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), pp. 1064-1067, August 2012.
• N. Kong and D.S. Ha “Low-Power Design of a Self-powered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System with Maximum Power Point Tracking,” IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp.2298-2308, May 2012.

Year 2011

• N. Kong, T.S. Deyerle, and D.S. Ha, “Universal Power Management IC for Small-Scale Energy Harvesting with Adaptive Impedance Matching,” Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), pp. 3859–3863, September 2011.
• J. Turner, J. Cartwright, D.S. Ha, D. Zhang, and S. Banerjee, “On Energy Harvesting Module for Scalable Cognitive Autonomous Nondestructive Sensing Network (SCANSn) System for Bridge Health Monitoring,” SPIE International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, Vol. 7983, 79831T-1 (11 pages), March 2011.

Year 2010

• N. Kong, D.S. Ha, A. Erturk, and D.J. Inman, “Resistive Impedance Matching Circuit for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting,”Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, Vol. 21, No. 13, pp. 1293-1302, September, 2010. (Online version: http://jim.sagepub.com/cgi/rapidpdf/1045389X09357971v1).

• D. Zhou, N. Kong, D.S. Ha, and D.J. Inman, “A Self-powered Wireless Sensor Node for Structural Health Monitoring,” SPIE International Symposium on Smart Structures and Materials & Nondestructive Evaluation and Health Monitoring, Vol. 7650, 765010-1 (12 pages), March 2010.

• N. Kong, T. Cochran, D.S. Ha, H.-C. Lin, D.J. Inman, "A Self-powered Power Management Circuit for Energy Harvested by a Piezoelectric Cantilever," Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, pp. 2154 -2160, February 2010.

Year 2009

• S.R. Anton, A. Erturk, N. Kong, D.S. Ha, and D.J. Inman, “Self-Charging Structures Using Piezoceramics and Thin-Film Batteries,” ASME Conference on Smart Materials, Adaptive Structures and Intelligent Systems, SMASIS2009-1368, (12 pages), September 2009.