Energy Harvesting
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Energy Harvesting Applications
Energy Harvesting, also referred to as power harvesting or energy scavenging, is the process of converting existing ambient power sources into electrical energy. This process allows designers to create low-maintenance power solutions for their applications.
Products
NEH2000BY Energy Harvesting Power Management IC
Nexperia's NEH2000BY IC in an ultra-compact package is optimized to efficiently harvest energy from a wide range of ambient sources.
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IXOLAR™ Thin 1.2 mm, 25% Efficiency Solar Cells
ANYSOLAR's IXOLAR™ cells are made of high-efficiency monocrystalline solar cells with a power conversion as high as 25%.
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BCS Series Low Illumination Film Solar Cells
TDK's BCS series are thin, lightweight, and flexible solar cells offering high power generation efficiency under fluorescent and LED light sources.
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Solar Cell Products
Jauch Quartz's solar cell products' excellent efficiencies (approx. 22%) allow users to make the most of the sun and translate the sunlight into clean energy.
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Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells
Panasonic’s amorphous silicon solar cells can power a variety of both indoor and outdoor devices such as meters, GPS trackers, faucets, IoT devices, and more.
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MAX20361 Tiny Single-/Multi-Cell Solar Harvester
Analog Devices' MAX20361 can harvest energy from single-/multi-cell solar sources and is available for use in a variety of applications.
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Rapid and Quiet Reverse Recovery Diodes
STMicroelectronics offers 600 V RQ diodes developed for onboard battery chargers, 2 or 3 wheelers chargers, EV charging stations, and industrial converters.
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Indoor Solar Development Kit with Nordic BLE
PowerFilm's indoor solar development kit with Nordic BLE is perfect for developers looking to design or add high-performance indoor solar to BLE products.
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modelD Evaluation Kit
ReVibe Energy's modelD evaluation kit gives customers the opportunity to evaluate vibration energy harvesting in a wide variety of applications.
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Indoor Solar Development Kit
PowerFilm's DEV-IN-BASIC hardware is currently configured to charge a Li-ion type battery with max voltage of 4.2 V.
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Indoor Solar Development Kit with TI BLE
Fully powered by PowerFilm’s low-light series solar, the Indoor Solar Development Kit with TI BLE is a wireless sensing module.
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Real-World Plug-Ins for the Terasic DE10-Nano Kit
ADI offers its development boards for extending the functionality of the Terasic DE10-Nano kit.
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Articles & Blogs
DigiKey Partners with GroupGets to Help Startups GetMade
DigiKey is partnering with GroupGets to help startups GetMade! This partnership will help startups who have fallen short of a successful crowdfunding campaign.
Five Convenient Ways to Locate a Cross, Sub, or Replacement on DigiKey's Website
Finding an equivalent to an obsolete part can be difficult. However, DigiKey’s website has tools to help find crosses to parts quickly and easily.
How to Use Ultrasonic Sensing in Smart Water Meters
A description of the operation and integration of ultrasonic flow sensors in smart water meters and a brief review of standards for residential meter accuracy.
How and When to use Energy Harvesting to Power the Massive IoT
How and when to use energy harvesting to power the growing variety of wireless nodes in the massive Internet of Things.
Use Wireless Energy Harvesting Sensors to Simplify HVAC Installations and Retrofits
Use wireless energy harvesting sensors that avoid battery replacement for maintenance-free, out-of-way applications where wires aren’t an option.
BESS: A Solution to Manage Energy Proactively
The expansion of renewables and a global tendency towards efficient energy consumption have boosted interest in energy storage solutions.
Stewart Connector USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 IP67 - New Product Introduction
Rugged USB-C with IP67 rating, large operating temperature range, and so much more for a multitude of applications.
Q and A with NeuronicWorks Inc.
A brief discussion of Canada’s NeuronicWorks engineering house and the services that they offer.
Videos
EYE ON NPI - MAX20361 Tiny Single-/Multi-Cell Solar Harvester
The Analog Devices MAX20361 Tiny Single-/Multi-Cell Solar Harvester is designed for making solar-harvesting projects and products that can sip power from a small inexpensive solar cell, to charge up a battery or super-capacitor.
Exploring Ambiq's harvestKIT GUI
Ambiq’s energy harvesting reference design, harvestKIT includes access to a graphical user interface that details data such as the accelerometer, gyroscope, temperature, humidity, pressure and more.
Introducing Ambiqs Energy Harvesting Reference Design harvestKIT
Ambiq’s Business Development Marketing Director Chad Solomon, introduces harvestKIT, an energy harvesting reference design built to enhance the battery life on devices or eliminate the battery completely.
Up-Close with Ambiqs harvestKIT
Ambiq’s Business Development Marketing Director Chad Solomon breaks down the different components of Ambiq’s energy harvesting reference design, harvestKIT, and what functions they perform.
Nexperia Energy Harvesting MPPT Technology Explained
Nexperia’s Energy Harvesting PMIC uses the advanced Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm to harvest energy for ultra-low power IoT sensors/nodes. MPPT uses an embedded hill-climbing algorithm to deliver the maximum power to the load.
WEbinar Partnered with DigiKey: Use Wasted Energy to Power Your Sensors
In this Würth Elektronik Webinar Presentation, we will have an introduction to Energy Harvesting and what type of ambient energies are available. We'll discuss challenges in converting and storing these energies into usable energy.
Featured PTMS
RSL15 Bluetooth® BLE 5.2
onsemi’s RSL15 is a superb choice for BLE applications because of its low power consumption, hardware security, direction finding, and long range.
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Energy Harvesting PMIC Portfolio
Cypress provides the world’s lowest-power, single-chip Energy Harvesting PMIC solution for tiny, solar-powered WSN IoT Devices
Metal Composite SMD Power Inductors
Manufactured with a magnetic metal composite which offers advantages over traditional ferrite inductors.
5 minutes
Dynamic NFC / RFID Tag
Combining the high reliability EEPROM process and a serial interface.
25 minutes
bq77910A 4-10 Cell Li-Ion Battery Protection and Cell Balancing IC
The bq77910A is an integrated battery management solution for Li-ion based power tools, e-bikes, UPS systems, and other high-current applications.
10 minutes
Energy Harvesting: bq25504
BQ25504 offers many advantages to its users including low power requirements, high efficiency, and continuous energy harvesting.
15 minutes
