Harvesting Energy into Lithium-Ion Batteries

by Erick O. Torres & Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora Power Management DesignLine, 14 Feb 2006 Modern portable micro-systems like biomedical implants and ad-hoc wireless transceiver micro-sensors continue to integrate more functions into smaller devices, which result in low energy levels and short operational lives. Researchers and industry alike are therefore considering harvesting energy from the surrounding environment as a means of offsetting this energy deficit. Read more