Indoor Solar Cells optimised to convert ambient indoor light to electricity
https://www.electronics-lab.com/indoor-solar-cells-optimised-to-convert-ambient-indoor-light-to-electricity/
Swedish and Chinese scientists have developed organic solar cells optimised to convert ambient indoor light to electricity. The power they produce is low, but is probably enough to feed the millions of products that the internet of things will bring online. For more information see the IDTechEx report on Energy Harvesting Microwatt to Megawatt 2019-2029. […]
Industry-Leading Energy Harvesting Technology from e-peas Enables Accurate & Continuous Animal Tracking
https://www.electronics-lab.com/industry-leading-energy-harvesting-technology-e-peas-enables-accurate-continuous-animal-tracking/
Highlighting the huge application potential of the company’s advanced power management ICs (PMICs), e-peas has confirmed that its AEM10941 devices for photovoltaic energy harvesting are being incorporated into tracking equipment employed in Australian cattle ranches. e-peas engineers worked in conjunction with the team at Dutch systems integrator SODAQ on the development and implementation of energy […]
New IC is capable of 100mV cold start, with extended input voltage range
https://www.electronics-lab.com/e-peas-applies-its-ultra-low-power-technology-to-thermally-based-energy-harvesting/
e-peas has announced the introduction of a new power management IC specifically optimized for energy harvesting from thermal sources in wireless sensors application. Supplied in a space-saving 28-pin QFN package, the AEM20940 is a highly advanced device based on proprietary technology that is capable of extracting available input current up to levels of 110mA. Taking […]
Bluetooth 5 transceivers are self-powered
https://www.electronics-lab.com/bluetooth-5-transceivers-self-powered/
Atmosic Technologies Inc. (Saratoga, CA) has launched the M2 and M3 Bluetooth 5.0 transceiver chips, claiming them to be the lowest power Bluetooth wireless chips available. Atmosic took a wireless agnostic approach to determine the most power-efficient foundation for its first IoT connectivity solutions. To radically reduce power consumption, Atmosic has developed three key technologies: […]
Tiny Solar Energy Module (TSEM)
https://www.electronics-lab.com/tiny-solar-energy-module-tsem/
A 1 square inch PCB module with 2 tiny solar cells, a highly efficient Li-Ion charger and with 3.3V and 1.8V output by Jasper Sikken: This is a 1×1 inch PCB module with two tiny solar cells, a highly efficient Li-Ion battery charger and with two regulated outputs (3.3V and 1.8V). It is unique because […]
DC-DC converter starts up and operates from a single photocell
https://www.electronics-lab.com/dc-dc-converter-starts-operates-single-photocell/
by Marian Stofka @ www.edn.com: The bq25504 from Texas Instruments is a good candidate to become a milestone on the road to micro-power management and energy harvesting. A prominent feature of this IC is its ability to start up at a supply voltage as low as 330 mV typically, and 450 mV guaranteed. With an SMD […]
Harvesting Sound Energy From Passing Cars
https://www.electronics-lab.com/harvesting-sound-energy-passing-cars/
by Mechanical Attraction @ instructables.com: There is energy everywhere around us and in many different forms. Many devices have been developed to harvest light, wind, waves, and more. One unusual place of energy harvesting is from passing cars. As cars pass by some of their energy is released in form of sound. Even though the […]
Renesas Electronics Achieves Lowest Embedded SRAM Power of 13.7 nW/Mbit
https://www.electronics-lab.com/renesas-electronics-achieves-lowest-embedded-sram-power-13-7-nwmbit/
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the successful development of a new low-power SRAM circuit technology that achieves a record ultra-low power consumption of 13.7 nW/Mbit in standby mode. The prototype SRAM also achieves a high-speed readout time of 1.8 ns during active operation. Renesas Electronics applied its 65nm node silicon on thin buried oxide (SOTB) process to develop this […]
Cell Phone Can Make Calls Without a Battery
https://www.electronics-lab.com/cell-phone-can-make-calls-without-battery/
Vamsi Talla at the University of Washington in Seattle build a mobile phone that can rely only on energy that it could harvest from its surroundings. Imagine if you can send SMS or make a call when you are out of battery. That’s what’s the team trying to achieve. Ambient light can be turned into […]
Energy-harvesting power management ICs for wireless sensor nodes
https://www.electronics-lab.com/energy-harvesting-power-management-ics-for-wireless-sensor-nodes/
by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: Cypress Semiconductor has introduced what it believes to be the lowest-available-power PMICs that enable an integrated module size of 1 cm² for solar-powered wireless sensor node (WSN) designs. Intended to manage solar-powered wireless sensors for Internet of Things (IoT) applications, these parts are said to be the lowest-power, single-chip Energy Harvesting […]