MEMS Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 17 May 2011 15:19:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 New Pyroelectric Device Transforms Heat into Electricity With 30% Efficiency https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scott-hunter-pyroelectri-20110517/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scott-hunter-pyroelectri-20110517/#respond Tue, 17 May 2011 15:19:05 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=18664 Thermoelectric devices transform waste heat into electricity and can one day provide increased efficiency for everything from small gadgets to power plants. Scott Hunter, working at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) hopes his new heat-recovering invention will scavenge lost heat with an efficiency of up to 30 percent.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/scott-hunter-pyroelectri-20110517/feed/ 0 18664 Shoe-Embedded Flexible Polymer That Can Power Your Small Devices https://www.greenoptimistic.com/polymer-transducer-mems-20100428/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/polymer-transducer-mems-20100428/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:40:31 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=7479 Dr. Ville Kaajakari, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Louisiana Tech University has devised a small power generator that can be embedded in the sole of a shoe, to juice any kind of low-power device.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/polymer-transducer-mems-20100428/feed/ 0 7479 New MEMS Element Transforms Vibration Into 85μW of Electricity https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-mems-element-transforms-vibration-into-85%ce%bcw-of-electricity-20091212/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/new-mems-element-transforms-vibration-into-85%ce%bcw-of-electricity-20091212/#respond Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:11:42 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5755 Two Europe based research institutes (IMEC and TNO), have developed a new MEMS element capable of converting vibration energy into electric power.

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