An energy scavenging microsystem based on thermoelectricity for battery life extension in laptops

IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1813-1816

  Rocha, R P ^a   Carmo, J P ^a   Goncalves, L M ^a   Correia, J H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMONY TELLURIDE; BATTERY LIFE; COMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CRITICAL AMOUNT; CRITICAL PROBLEMS; ENERGY SCAVENGING; HIGH-END MICROPROCESSORS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; THERMOELECTRIC EFFECTS; THIN FILM MATERIAL; THIN-FILM TECHNOLOGY;

ANTIMONY; BISMUTH; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; MICROSYSTEMS; TELLURIUM COMPOUNDS; WASTE HEAT;

MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS;

EID: 77951591694     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IECON.2009.5414838     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (6)

1. P. Cohen. Hot laptops may reduce male fertility. NewScientist News Service, 9th December 2004.
2. Intel Corporation. http://www.intel.com/.
3. D. M. Rowe. Handbook of Thermoelectrics. CRC Press. 1995.
4. L. Bell. Cooling, heating, generating power, and recovering waste heat with thermoelectric systems. Science, Vol.321, pp. 1457-1461, 12 September 2008.
5. Seiko Instruments. http://www.seiko.com/.
6. Maxim-IC. http://www.maxim-ic.com/.