Authors:
Clint Landrock
1
;
Bozena Kaminska
1
;
Yindar Chuo
2
;
Badr Omrane
2
and
Jeydmer Aristizabal
2
Affiliations:
1
Simon Fraser University and IDME Technologies Corp, Canada
;
2
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Keyword(s):
Energy harvesting, Integration, Micro-sensors, Polymer electronics, Solar cells, Photovoltaic, Super-capacitor.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Biomedical Instruments and Devices
;
Devices
;
Electrocardiography and Heart Monitoring
;
Emerging Technologies
;
Hardware
;
Health Monitoring Devices
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Low-Power Design
;
MEMS
;
Microelectronics
;
Nanotechnologies
;
Physiological Computing Systems
;
Sensor Networks
;
Technologies Evaluation
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
;
Wireless Systems
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.