Design and optimization of a MEMS electret-based capacitive energy scavenger

In this paper, a method for the design and optimization of an electret-based vibration-to-electric microconverter is presented, using a nonlinear dynamical model of the device. The dynamics of the converter is analyzed in detail, showing the importance of properly accounting for the nonlinearity in the optimization process. A procedure to determine a set of optimization parameters is finally presented.

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