Micro Energy Harvesting from Low-Frequency Vibrations: Towards Powering Pacemakers with Heartbeats

Miniaturized vibration energy harvesters can provide an alternative to batteries in powering the billions of low power devices we use today by extracting power from ambient motion. Especially for implanted medical devices, these alternative power sources may be an attractive option to overcome the limitations on longevity and the replacement...

Novel thermal error reduction techniques in temperature domain

The relative importance of thermal errors in precision machines has increased in recent years. The requirements on precision machines such as higher precision and higher productivity become more stringent over product generations. Improved precision of precision machines has increased the importance of thermal errors in precision machines. To...

Air-based contactless actuation system for thin substrates: The concept of using a controlled deformable surface