Energy Harvesting Solutions for Self-Powered Devices: From Structural Health Monitoring to Biomedical Applications

[eng] The thesis reflects the research carried out on the development of truly self-powered devices. The development of devices for the scopes of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Point-of-Care devices (PoC) is shown. New solutions are implemented in the field of energy harvesting to use a sing...

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Autor: Álvarez-Carulla, Albert
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de la UB
OAI Identifier:oai:diposit.ub.edu:2445/174186
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/174186
http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670900
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Recol·lecció d'energia
Bateries elèctriques
Energy harvesting
Electric batteries
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Sumario:[eng] The thesis reflects the research carried out on the development of truly self-powered devices. The development of devices for the scopes of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Point-of-Care devices (PoC) is shown. New solutions are implemented in the field of energy harvesting to use a single transducer as sensor element and power supply for the system. In this research, the transducers used are piezoelectric generators and galvanic cells, being extrapolated the developments made to other types of transducers or generators.