THIN FLEXIBLE POLYMER-BASED ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR LOW-POWER WIRELESS MONITORING DEVICES

Clint Landrock, Bozena Kaminska, Yindar Chuo, Badr Omrane, Jeydmer Aristizabal

2012

Abstract

In this work we present the novel design for a polymer based energy harvesting and storage system for thin flexible wearable biomedical devices. The energy system employs novel long lasting polymer solar cells and polymer hybrid sodium-ion super capacitors capable of both immediately storing harvested photo energy and slowly discharging power for micro to milli-watt devices. The polymer nature of this platform system makes its suitable for roll-to-roll print manufacturing, supporting applications requiring high volume and low cost. We present performance results for the two energy system components along with results for an integrated single cell energy system.

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Landrock C., Kaminska B., Chuo Y., Omrane B. and Aristizabal J. (2012). THIN FLEXIBLE POLYMER-BASED ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR LOW-POWER WIRELESS MONITORING DEVICES . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-91-1, pages 239-244. DOI: 10.5220/0003793802390244


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@conference{biodevices12,
author={Clint Landrock and Bozena Kaminska and Yindar Chuo and Badr Omrane and Jeydmer Aristizabal},
title={THIN FLEXIBLE POLYMER-BASED ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR LOW-POWER WIRELESS MONITORING DEVICES},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={239-244},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003793802390244},
isbn={978-989-8425-91-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Volume 1: BIODEVICES, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - THIN FLEXIBLE POLYMER-BASED ENERGY SYSTEMS FOR LOW-POWER WIRELESS MONITORING DEVICES
SN - 978-989-8425-91-1
AU - Landrock C.
AU - Kaminska B.
AU - Chuo Y.
AU - Omrane B.
AU - Aristizabal J.
PY - 2012
SP - 239
EP - 244
DO - 10.5220/0003793802390244