In-Plane Electromagnetic Generator Fabricated on Printed Circuit Board Technology

2013 ◽  
Vol 479-480 ◽  
pp. 524-529
Author(s):  
C.T. Pan ◽  
F.T. Hsu ◽  
C.C. Nien ◽  
Z.H. Liu ◽  
Y.J. Chen ◽  
...  

Small and efficient energy harvesters, as a renewable power supply, draw lots of attention in the last few years. This paper presents a planar rotary electromagnetic generator with copper coils fabricated by using printed circuit board (PCB) as inductance and Nd-Fe-B magnets as magnetic element. Coils are fabricated on PCB, which is presumably cost-effective and promising methods. 28-pole Nd-Fe-B magnets with outer diameter of 50 mm and thickness of 2 mm was sintered and magnetized, which can provide magnetic field of 1.44 Tesla. This harvester consists of planar multilayer with multi-pole coils and multi-pole permanent magnet, and the volume of this harvester is about 50x50x2.5 mm3. Finite element analysis is used to design energy harvesting system, and simulation model of the energy harvester is established. In order to verify the simulation, experiment data are compared with simulation result. The PCB energy harvester prototype can generate induced voltage 0.61 V and 13.29mW output power at rotary speed of 4,000 rpm.

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. FSO416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Rice ◽  
Sayali Upasham ◽  
Badrinath Jagannath ◽  
Roshan Manuel ◽  
Madhavi Pali ◽  
...  

Sweat-based analytics have recently caught the attention of researchers and medical professionals alike because they do not require professionally trained personnel or invasive collection techniques to obtain a sample. The following presents a small form-factor biosensor for reporting physiological ranges of cortisol present in ambient sweat (8–151 ng/ml). This device obtains cortisol measurements through low volumes of unstimulated sweat from the user’s wrist. We designed a potentiostatic circuit on a printed circuit board to perform electrochemical testing techniques. The detection modality developed for quantifying sensor response to varying cortisol concentrations is a current based electrochemical technique, chronoamperometry (CA). From the results, the sensor can detect cortisol in the physiologically relevant ranges of cortisol; thus, the sensor is a noninvasive, label free, cost-effective solution for tracking cortisol levels for circadian diagnostics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandeep Chaturvedi ◽  
Shiban K. Koul

Design, fabrication, and test results of a novel 3-layer RF package using a commonly available high frequency laminate are presented in this paper. The developed package can be manufactured using standard multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing techniques making it cost effective for commercial applications. The package exhibits excellent RF characteristics up to 6 GHz.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 283-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Glatzl ◽  
Samir Cerimovic ◽  
Harald Steiner ◽  
Almir Talic ◽  
Roman Beigelbeck ◽  
...  

Abstract. This paper addresses the development of flow sensors optimized for heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems. The sensors are based on the printed circuit board technology facilitating robust, flexible (in terms of layout), and cost-effective devices. Two approaches for measuring fluid quantities like flow velocity over the whole cross section are investigated in this context. The first one relies on hot-film transduction and stands out for its simplicity, but also shows some severe limitations, which can be circumvented by the second approach based on calorimetric transduction. Supported by extensive numerical simulations, several sensor embodiments were investigated and fabricated. After experimental characterization, measurement and simulation results were compared, which turned out to be in good agreement.


Author(s):  
Mai Hong Hanh ◽  
Nguyễn Việt Tuyên ◽  
Pham Van Thanh ◽  
Hoang Chi Hieu

Abstract: High quality, high density, and well-aligned zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods have been synthesized on cost-effective printed circuit board (PCB) substrates via a simple, seedless, one-step, low-temperature hydrothermal method based galvanic cell structure. It was found that the outer diameters of the ZnO nanorods range from 50 nm to 400 nm. The as-grown ZnO nanorods prefer to grow along the c axis. The morphologies of the ZnO nanorods were investigated by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The crystallinity properties were characterized by Raman spectroscopy and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy.


Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 960 ◽  
Author(s):  
Min-Soo Kang ◽  
Do-Seok Kim ◽  
Young-Eui Shin

To analyze the reinforcement effect of adding polymer to solder paste, epoxies were mixed with two currently available Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu (wt.% SAC305) and Sn-59Bi (wt.%) solder pastes and specimens prepared by bonding chip resistors to a printed circuit board. The effect of repetitive thermal stress on the solder joints was then analyzed experimentally using thermal shock testing (−40 °C to 125 °C) over 2000 cycles. The viscoplastic stress–strain curves generated in the solder were simulated using finite element analysis, and the hysteresis loop was calculated. The growth and propagation of cracks in the solder were also predicted using strain energy formulas. It was confirmed that the epoxy paste dispersed the stress inside the solder joint by externally supporting the solder fillet, and crack formation was suppressed, improving the lifetime of the solder joint.


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