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 |
