5th Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop - March 3-4, 2010 - The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center - Roanoke, Virginia

2009 Program

The 4th Annual Energy Harvesting Workshop was held on January 28-29, 2009 on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia at the Inn and Virginia Tech and Skelton Conference Center. The workshop drew 110 participants from 20 states and 9 countries. Eight exhibitors also participated to showcase their latest technologies and research.

January 28, 2009
7:30 - 8:30 AM Registration
8:40 - 9:00 Energy Initiatives at Virginia Tech
Don Leo
9:00 - 9:20 Piezoelectric Thick Films Prepared by Aerosol Deposition
Dong-Soo Park
9:20 - 9:40 Design methodology of piezoelectric generators for SHM sensor nodes
Thomas Rödig
9:40 - 10:00 Energy harvesting by piezo elements and shunted switching networks
Dr. Jörg Wallaschek
10:00 - 10:20 Large scale mechanical energy harvesting from jet engine vibrations on ocean waves
Josiah Oliver
10:20 - 10:40 Large Scale Vibration and Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting
Dr. Sam Behrens
Break
11:00 - 11:20 Multimodal Energy Harvesting
Dwight Viehland
11:20 - 11:40 Comparison of Energy Harvesting Techniques Based Upon Bidirectional Electrical Power Flow
Heath Hofmann
11:40 - 12:00 Integrated Energy Harvesting with Multisource, Adaptive Interfaces
Dr. Abhiman Hande
Lunch
1:30 - 1:50 Optimal Control of Broadband Energy Harvesting Systems
Dr. Jeff Scruggs
1:50 - 2:10 APC International
Jeff Zhand
2:10 - 2:30 RF Energy Harvesting for Controllable Wireless Power Systems
Charlie Greene, Ph.D.
2:30 - 2:50 Piezo-Aero-Elastic Analysis of a Unimorph Cantilever for Vibration Energy Harvesting
Professor Carlos De Marqui, Jr.
Break
3:10 - 3:30 Design and Fabrication Considerations for MEMS Scale Vibration Energy Harvesting
Dr. Frank T. Fisher
3:30 - 3:50 Multi-Transducer Approach to Energy Harvesting for a Wireless Impedance-Based SHM Sensor Node
Dr. Kevin M. Farinholt
3:50 - 4:10 Harvesting piezoelectric energy from turbulence
Professor Yiannis Andreopoulos, PhD.
4:10 - 4:30 Solar Energy Harvesting Prediction Algorithm
Dr. Tajana Simunic Rosing
4:30 - 4:50 Thermo harvesting - more and enduring power for wireless systems
Burkhard Habbe
6:00 - 8:00 Banquet
Introduction to ICTAS
Chris Cornelius
January 29, 2009
8:40 - 9:00 An Enhanced Energy Harvesting Scheme with Magnetic Force Modified Spring Potential on a Piezoelectric Cantilever
Ji-Tzuoh Lin
9:00 - 9:20 Improving the Average Power and Bandwidth of Vibration Energy Harvesters
Mostafa Soliman
9:20 - 9:40 Thermoelectric energy harvesting
Scott Huxtable
9:40 - 10:20 Issues in MEMS scale vibration energy harvesting
Mr. Mohammad Amin Karami
10:20 - 10:40 Piezoelectric Microgenerator
Hyunuk Kim
Break
11:00 - 11:20 Energy harvesting circuit design
Dr. Dong Ha
11:20 - 11:40 Piezoelectric thin films based energy harvesting
Dr. Bruce Gnade
11:40 - 12:00 Printable organics
Dr. Stephen Foulger
12:00 - 12:20 High Efficiency Thin Multi-Junction Solar Cells
Aswini K. Prodhan
12:20 - 1:30 Lunch -
1:30 - 1:50 Clean Coal Technologies for Modern Power Plants

Louis Guido Srinath V. Ennad
1:50 - 2:10 Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems
Shashank Priya
2:10 - 4:00 Panel Discussion and Planning Grant Meeting
John Blottman, NVWC
Dan Inman, VIrginia Tech
Thomas Dave, Smart Materials
Geoffrey L. Brennecha, Sandia National Lab

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