energy harvesting and storage from electromagnetic radiation sources
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Energy harvesting and storage from electromagnetic radiation sources
Gabriel Abadal Berini Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica
Escola d’Enginyeria Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Bellaterra (Barcelona). SPAIN
NiPS Summer School 2012. Energy Harvesting at micro and nanoscale, July 23-25, 2012 Erice (Sicily) - Italy
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Prof. Paco Serra
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Prof. Paco Serra
Signal = Energy + Information
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Outline Energy available in the EM spectrum RF energy harvesting. The MEMSTENNA concept. Alternatives to Photovolatics: Optical rectenna. From RF rectenna to optical rectenna Opacmems devices Storage
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Outline Energy available in the EM spectrum RF energy harvesting. The MEMSTENNA concept. Alternatives to Photovolatics: Optical rectenna. From RF rectenna to optical rectenna Opacmems devices Storage
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The electromagnetic spectrum
c = λ·ν E = h·ν
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The electromagnetic spectrum
c = λ·ν E = h·ν
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DC (no radiation)
50 Hz, 100W-10kW
FM radio: 100kW to achieve good reception at 50km
70 dBuV/m = 3.2mV/m old UHF TV band
GSM, UMTS -> 3G: 100mW-2W
ISM bands (900MHz-2.4GHz): WIFI (100mW), Bluetooth (2.5mW), ZigBee (<1mW)
GPS: 10-100 aW
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FM radio: 100kW to achieve good reception at 50km
70 dBuV/m = 3.2mV/m old UHF TV band
GSM, UMTS -> 3G: 100mW-2W
ISM bands (900MHz-2.4GHz): WIFI (100mW), Bluetooth (2.5mW), ZigBee (<1mW)
8-160 nW/cm2 (10m distance)
Power density (W/cm2)
[1]
[1]
1.3 pW/cm2
0.3 nW/cm2 (50km distance)
8 , 0.2 nW/cm2 , <80pW/cm2 (10m distance)
[2]
[2]
[1]
[1]
Intrinsic vacuum impedance
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Outline Energy available in the EM spectrum RF energy harvesting. The MEMSTENNA concept. Alternatives to Photovolatics: Optical rectenna. From RF rectenna to optical rectenna Opacmems devices Storage
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Drawbacks: 1) Dimensions of the rectenna in the cm scale: no integrable
2) “Natural” Source power densities very low: pW/cm2 – nw/cm2
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Drawbacks: 1) Dimensions of the rectenna in the cm scale: no integrable
2) “Natural” Source power densities very low: pW/cm2 – nW/cm2
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Q
Felectrostatic
piezo RF wave
NEMS Resonator
The MEMSTENNA concept
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L≈500nm r ≈5nm Eext ≈108 V/m q ≈200 e-
Erad,min=1V/m/√Hz
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Some basics on NEMS. Mechanical characteristics
l
t w
(N/m) 4 3
3
ltwEk ⋅
⋅=
(Hz) 162.0 2lwEfres ⋅⋅=
ρ
(kg) 2resfkm =
l(um) t(um) w(um) k(N/m) fres(kHz) m(gr)
450 50 2 0.2 14 10-6
125 30 4 44 364 3·10-7
10 0.48 0.1 0.02 1.4·103 10-11
Young modulus: ESi=1.79·1011 N/m2 Density: ρSi=2.33·103 kg/m3
MEMS
NEMS
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Critical dimension scaling
MEM
S/N
EMS
base
d an
tenn
a (m
)
Dip
ole
base
d an
tenn
a (m
) Critical dim.
Dipole M/NEMS
Frequency (Hz)
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Drawbacks: 1) Dimensions of the rectenna in the cm scale: no integrable
2) “Natural” Source power densities very low: pW/cm2 – nW/cm2
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Need for “artificial/dedicated” RF sources
Drawbacks: 1) Dimensions of the rectenna in the cm scale: no integrable
2) “Natural” Source power densities very low: pW/cm2 – nW/cm2
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MEMSTENA
Energy is harvested from “natural” RF sources
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MEMSTENA
Energy is harvested from “artificial” specially designed RF sources
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WiTricity (MIT)
90% efficiency energy transfer 9.9MHz (λ=30m)
60cm in diameter
60W bulb
3m
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WiTricity (MIT)
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λ/2 dipole
Cantilever thickness and width:
•
•
Can
tilev
er a
nten
na le
ngth
(m)
Dip
ole
leng
th (m
)
Frequency (Hz)
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For a 1m dipole: Cantilever length should be 5μm!! and frequency would be around 100 MHz
For a cantilever 100 μm long:
Dipole length should be 300m!! and frequency would be around 40 kHz
Can
tilev
er a
nten
na le
ngth
(m)
Dip
ole
leng
th (m
)
Frequency (Hz)
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Exercise: Consider a dipole antenna L=1m. Consider a commercial cantilever (AFM) l=200um. Q1) Would it be possible to demonstrate the MEMSTENNA concept with these two elements? Q2) Which would be the order of magnitude of the mechanical energy harvested by the MEMSTENNA?
Pau Bramon
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λ=3km
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• Wavelength>> Dipole length
• Uniform current distribution
MEMSTENNA placed close the dipole antenna
Quasiestatic electric fields
Elemental Dipole / Near field conditions
l
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An elemental dipole antenna has to be designed to operate at f=100kHz
Autoinductaces are calculated to have a selfresonance around 100kHz Electric field is measured 20cm away from the dipole antenna.
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Emàx = 106,52V/m
fmàx = 118,441kHz
Emàx = 81,7V/m
fmàx = 117kHz Simulated
Measured Elec
tric
fiel
d (V
/m)
Frequency (Hz)
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fmàx = 100kHz C = 14,5pF fmàx = 100kHz
C = 11pF Simulated
Measured
Elec
tric
fiel
d (V
/m)
Frequency (Hz)
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Vibration amplitud at resonance
Harvested mechanical power
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d: cantilever tip – electrode distance
Aeff: Effective area cantilever tip - electrode
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For this cantilever and applying Vq=20V from d=3um:
q ≈ 5.3·10-15 C
A ≈ 1.7 nm
P ≈ 50 fW
V = 18·103 um3 = 18·10-9 cm3
P/V = 2.8 uW/cm3
V = 0.3 cm3
0.8 uW
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Outline Energy available in the EM spectrum RF energy harvesting. The MEMSTENNA concept. Alternatives to Photovolatics: Optical rectenna. From RF rectenna to optical rectenna Opacmems devices Storage
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The electromagnetic spectrum
c = λ·ν E = h·ν
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1st generation 90% market 15% efficiency
2nd generation 10% market 5-12% efficiency
3rd generation 40-50% efficiency
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During the day the maximum energy is in the visible (λmax≈ 500 nm) During the night, the maximun energy is in the IR (λmax ≈ 10-15 µm)
black body radiation + atmospheric absortion
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Corresponds to the Sun surface At the Earth orbit distance, flux is reduced by a factor 50.000
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Hagerty et al., “IEEE Trans on MTT”, (2004)
GHz rectenna
Alda et al. Opt. Lett. (2009)
THz optical rectenna
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Microwave patch-antenna
Infrared bow-tie antenna Visible dipole antenna
cm
um nm
Optical nano-antenna technology
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6.7 mµ
Substrate (Si/SiO2)
Connectors (metal)
Transducer (MOM)
Antenna (metal)
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• A light detector • A metallic resonant structure that couples the radiation to a transducer
element • A detection element coupled with an antenna working at optical
frequencies
What is an optical nano-antenna
• A simple downscaled version of a radioelectric or microwave antenna • A competitor for the semiconductor light detectors • A phase detector (important advances) • An emitter (no yet, but coming)
What is NOT an optical nano-antenna
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• Point-like detector: Minimum spatial footprint • Polarization sensitive detector • Fast detector • Tunable detector • Directional selective detector • Integrable with opto-electronics • Work at room temperature • Transduction mechanism:
• Bolometric material: dissipative • Metal-Oxide-Metal Union: non-linear rectification.
• These mechanisms are usually placed at the feed-point of the antenna structure.
Properties of an optical nano-antenna
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Optical rectenna
Theoretical efficiencies ≈ 96% Shottky diodes: f < 5 THz MIM diodes: f ≈ 150 THz (2um) Two limitations: -Integration - Zero bias response: pour non-linearity of the i-v characteristic at V=0.
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The metallic subwavelenght structures are not connected to read-out electronics.
Control of the reflected, transmitted, or absorbed
radiation. Polarization control: Polarizers and retarders Spectral control: Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS)
Optical resonant structures
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Polarization control
• Meander-lines and polarization elements: • Change in the state of polarization using metallic
periodic structures
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Frequency selective structures (FSS)
Modification of the spectral reflectivity, transmissivity and absortance.
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NOEMS oscillators
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Structure example: • Type: bridge
• Fabrication causes residual compressive stress It makes the bridge to be arched 40 nm at the
periphery
• Materials (from a SOI wafer) Bridge: Si Pillar: SiO2 Substrate: Si
Spot laser “Excitation” source:
Continuous Wave (CW) HeNe laser λ = 632,8 nm
Spot radius of about 2-5 µm
Position at the center of the beam
15μm 200nm
400nm
Fabry-Pérot cavity
Temperature contours
NOEMS oscillators HeNe
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Spot laser
15μm 200nm
400nm
Fabry-Pérot cavity
Temperature contours
NOEMS oscillators HeNe
( )
30 1 0b
absorbed
Tz z z z DTQ T
T AP z BT
ω β
+ + − + − =
= −
( )20 : sinlaserExample T AP z z BTα γ → = + − −
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NOEMS oscillators
Temperature, position and velocity decreasing till there is no temporal variation at the steady state
Temperature, position and velocity reach the steady state with periodic motion
Hopf bifurcation!
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NOEMS oscillators
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NOEMS oscillators coupled to optical resonant structures OPACMEMS devices
AlN (piezo)
Array of nanocantilevers (NEMS)
Array of optical antenna (FSS)
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Outline Energy available in the EM spectrum RF energy harvesting. The MEMSTENNA concept. Alternatives to Photovolatics: Optical rectenna. From RF rectenna to optical rectenna Opacmems devices Storage
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Storage
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Storage
Project title: NEMSBattery: NEMS BASED MECHANICAL ENERGY STORAGE Financed by: TEC2010-10459-E. Acción complementaria EXPLORA 2010 (micinn) Participants: UAB, CNM Duration from: January 2011 to: December 2012 Subvention: 24.000€ Project responsible: Francesc Torres Canals
Dr. Francesc Torres & Dr. Gabriel Abadal Department of Electronics Engineering School of Engineering University Autonoma of Barcelona (SP)
Dr. Jaume Esteve Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona IMB-CNM. CSIC Campus UAB (SP)
Aim of the project: To investigate the compression and deflection mechanisms of dense arrays of nanowires for the storage of mechanical energy.
ZnO
Pressure Pressure
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Storage
Project title: NEMSBattery: NEMS BASED MECHANICAL ENERGY STORAGE Financed by: TEC2010-10459-E. Acción complementaria EXPLORA 2010 (micinn) Participants: UAB, CNM Duration from: January 2011 to: December 2012 Subvention: 24.000€ Project responsible: Francesc Torres Canals
Dr. Francesc Torres & Dr. Gabriel Abadal Department of Electronics Engineering School of Engineering University Autonoma of Barcelona (SP)
Dr. Jaume Esteve Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona IMB-CNM. CSIC Campus UAB (SP)
Aim of the project: To investigate the compression and deflection mechanisms of dense arrays of nanowires for the storage of mechanical energy.
ZnO
Light Light
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Storage
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Storage
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Project title: ZEROPOWER—Co-ordinating Research Efforts Towards Zero-Power ICT Proposal no. 270005 Financed by: FP7-ICT-2009-6. Coordination and support action. ICT-6-8.9 - Coordinating Communities, Plans and Actions in FETProactive Initiatives Participants: UNIPG (UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DIPERUGIA), Tyndall-UCC (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK), UAB (UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA), UGLA (UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW) Duration from: 1st January 2011 to: 31st December 2013 Subvention: 104.891€ (UAB) of 550.000€ (TOTAL) Project responsible: Luca Gammaitoni (UNIPG project coordinator). Gabriel Abadal (responsible UAB)
Prof. Luca Gammaitoni
Prof. Douglas Paul
Dr. Georgios Fagas
Dr. Gabriel Abadal
Aim of the project: The goal of this project is to create a coordination activity among consortia involved in “Toward Zero-Power ICT” research projects (FET proactive call FP7-ICT-2009-5, Objective 8.6) and communities of scientists interested in energy harvesting and low power, energy efficient ICT.
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Project title: OPACMEMS: Optical antennae coupled to micro and nanoelectromechanical systems Financed by: MICINN. ENE2009-14340-C02-02 Participants: UCM (subproject 01), UAB (subproject 02) Duration from: Oct 2009 to:Oct 2012 Subvention: 180.000€ (subproy. 02) Project responsible: Gabriel Abadal Berini
Dr. Gabriel Abadal Department of Electronics Engineering School of Engineering University Autonoma of Barcelona (SP)
Prof. Javier Alda Applied Optics Complutense Group University Complutense of Madrid (SP)
Aim of the project: To investigate the IR energy conversion to the electrical domain through MEMS-NEMS devices coupled to optical resonant structures for energy harvesting applications at the nanoscale.
http://grupsderecerca.uab.cat/nanerglab/
NOEMS for ENERGY LABORATORY NANO-OPTOELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS FOR ENERGY LABORATORY
Francesc Torres Gonzalo Murillo (now at INL)
Miquel López-Suárez Jordi Agustí Marcel Placidi (now at IREC)
Gabriel Abadal
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“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it” ALBERT EINSTEIN
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Abstract Alternatives to phtotovoltaics have been explored in the last decades in order to extend the capabilities of the energy harvesting technology to other ranges of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum and, at the same time, to radically improve the conversion efficiency. Most of these alternatives are based on classical electromagnetic antennas as the core element that converts electromagnetic radiation energy into the electrical domain. In this lecture we will review the schemes already proposed and proved in the literature and we will analyze their actual bottleneck that need to be improved. Novel state of the art technologies that include solutions to the storage of the harvested energy will be also presented and proposed in order to be discussed as possible new alternatives. Special emphasis will be given to those conversion strategies which are based on the combination of micro and nanoelectromechanical systems (M/NEMS) and optical components. The fabrication and characterization particularities of those special M/NOEMS devices will be presented in detail.
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Harvesting method Power
Density
Limitations
Silicon solar cells 100mW/cm2
100uW/cm2
Direct bright Sun light needed, only
2D
Office light needed, only 2D
Thermoelectric 60µW/cm2 temperature gradient needed, also
2D
Vibrational
microgenerator
800µW/cm3 Machinery needed to provide
vibration