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  1. ; ; ; (, Hilton Head Workshop 2024: A Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Workshop)
    This paper presents a non-resonant vibration energy harvester (VEH) optimized for 0.5-1.0 Hz at 0.2g acceleration, typically associated with human motion in daily activities. Different amounts of water-based and oil-based ferrofluids as liquid bearings have been studied in an experimental setup with a precisely controllable spacing between top and bottom coil plates where the magnet array and ferrofluid bearings reside. The sub-miniature VEH (1.4cc and 3.3gram) steadily generates voltages between 0.5-1.0 Hz and is measured to produce an open-circuit voltage of Vrms = 19.5 - 31.9 mV (or 0.33-0.89 μW into a match load) from 0.2g sub-Hz applied acceleration. The highest figure of merit (FOM) of the VEH at 0.2g at 1.0 Hz is 15.5 μW/cc/g2. 
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  2. ; ; ; ; ; (, Transducers '23, The 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems)
    This paper describes a wrist-wearable non-resonant vibrational energy harvester (1.4 cc in volume and 3.2 gram in weight, with two arrays of wound copper coils adjacent to a movable array of magnets suspended by ferrofluid bearing) for generating power from a human's walking motion. Thousand-turn coils are wound with a customized coil winding machine, and two sets of such coils are mounted on the top and bottom of a movable magnet array to obtain 20% improvement (compared to the earlier version based on an electroplated coil array) on the figure of merit (FOM) defined to be the power (delivered to a matched load) divided by the device's volume for a given acceleration of 1 g at 2 Hz. 
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