Self Sustained Thermally Induced Gas-Damped Oscillations of Bimetal Cantilevers with Application to the Design of a New Pyroelectric Micro Energy Harvester

Tarek Gebrael, Ali Kanj, Daniel Farhat +2

Low efficiency is the main drawback of many MEMS thermal energy harvesters. Recently, energy harvesting micro-devices that operate using the pyroelectric effect gained attention du…