TRACK 2: SENSOR POWER - Energy Harvesting and Advanced Battery Technologies for Integrated Sensor Applications
Power demands for next-generation sensors in a variety of applications provide significant challenges to scientists and engineers. A blended approach to power generation through advanced battery technology and energy harvesting is critical for the development of integrated sensors systems. This conference track will examine the latest battery technologies and energy harvesting techniques, including such topic areas as:
- Thermoelectric
- Piezoelectric
- Photovoltaic
- Electromagnetic
- Kinetic
- Wireless Power Transfer
| - Thin Film Batteries and Supercapacitors
- New Battery Chemistries
- Advances in Materials for Anode, Cathode, Electrolyte and Separators
- New Manufacturing Techniques
- Ultra Low Power Electronics
- Charging, Power Management & Energy Storage
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Tuesday, November 10
7:30 am Conference Registration and Morning Coffee
8:55 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Kalle Levon, Ph.D., Research Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, New York University
PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
9:00 High-Rate Nanoscale Printing for Sensors, Energy and Materials Applications
Ahmed Busnaina, Ph.D., William Lincoln Smith Professor, Distinguished University Professor & Director, The NSF Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing, Northeastern University
The NSF Center for High-Rate Nanomanufacturing (CHN) has developed
a new nanoscale printing process that can use a variety of nanomaterials
and can print onto a variety of substrates with nanoscale resolution
match the present state of the art silicon electronics circuit line width.
Last year, the center developed and built a fully-automated robotic cluster
tool system that prints at the nanoscale to make products that fully take
advantage of the superior properties of nanomaterials. Because of its
relative simplicity, the fully automated Nanoscale Offset Printing System
(NanoOPS) is expected to eliminate some of the high cost entry barriers
to the fabrication of nanoscale devices for sensors, electronics, energy,
medical, and functional materials applications.
9:35 Mobile Experience Application Platforms for Internet of Things/Everything (IOT/IOE)
Peter Mason, Director, Applications Platform Group, Cisco
Cisco estimates that 50 billion devices and object will be
connected to the internet by 2020. Yet today, more than 99%
of things in the physical world remain unconnected. This
presentation will highlight how the Internet of Things and Big Data fit into
IoE, and enable business outcomes through (1) new business models,
products, and services; (2) increased enterprise speed and agility; (3)
improved decision making; and (4) an unprecedented customer experience.
They will hear examples of how Cisco and our customers are taking
advantage of the data and information being generated by lighting up dark
assets. Most importantly, they will gain valuable insights into the business
and technology imperatives for the Internet of Everything.
10:10 Using Invention, Innovation and It's Resulting IP to Becoming Valuable to Your Value Chain as You Develop Sensors
John Cronin, Managing Director & Chairman, ipCapital Group
This presentation will describe case studies of creating large value through the use of focusing in invention, innovation and the resulting IP by virtualizing the future products. As we evaluate these case studies, it will become clear that focusing on creating larger value is all about the systematic techniques and processes for invention, use of experts, use of market data and use of patent literature directions. The key takeaways will be to provide a unique insight for the sensor, biosensor and power device organizations to see a brighter future for obtaining much higher value within the value chain.
10:40 Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
11:25 Chairperson’s Remarks
Kamal Shah, Director, EBL Initiative and System Architecture Management, Intel Corporation
11:30 1 Micro-Amp Power Sensor Sampling Solutions for Wearable and Energy Harvesting Applications
Mark Buccini, Director, Business Unit Strategy, Texas Instruments
This presentation details a 1 micro-amp, ultra-low power sensor sampling embedded solution implemented using only low-cost, off-the-shelf components and readily available sensors. This presentation will build up through a series of examples, a complete signal-chain starting from energy source, sensor, data conversion, ultra-low power embedded processor and concluding with a user interface. The importance of a duty-cycle based system architecture, power-gating external sensors, burst processing and data conversion, energy-aware firmware and the impact of supply voltage, temperature and stray capacitance will be reviewed. The concept of managing an overall restricted system power budget will be the fundamental undertone of this presentation.
12:00 pm Real-Time Communication with Sensors and Actuators
Behnam Dezfouli, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa
Energy harvesting can prolong the lifetime and improve the application range of wireless sensor networks. Depending on the sensing requirements, environmental parameters and production cost, various energy harvesting and saving systems can be employed. On the other hand, the employed energy harvesting system alongside with the energy prediction model should be considered to manage each node’s operation, both independently and with respect to other nodes’ operation.
12:30 Networking Lunch
1:55 Chairperson’s Remarks
Behnam Dezfouli, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa
2:00 Energy Harvesting for Autonomous Operation of Low-Power Wireless Sensors
Patrick Mercier, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Associate Director, Center for Wearable Sensors, University of California, San Diego
Harvesting energy from ambient sources offers designers the ability to create systems that can potentially feature true energy autonomy. This work will present methods to achieve high DC-DC conversion efficiency in miniaturized form-factors while operating over large input and output voltage ranges necessary for energy harvesting applications. Specifically, several SC DC-DC converters are designed to support dynamic reconfiguration amongst many conversion ratios in order to enable the requisite wide voltage range at high efficiency. The presentation will conclude with a brief look at some recent bio-energy harvesting devices that operate from human perspiration, or biologic electrochemical batteries in mammals.
2:30 Applications of Energy Harvesting – The Scandinavian Way
Johan Pederson, Specialist, Energy Harvesting, DELTA IdemoLab, Denmark
Scandinavia is one of the forefront regions in innovation of sustainable solutions. A range of energy harvesting enabled sensor-based solutions improving resource and process monitoring will be presented including the Scandinavian design and approach. This presentation brings insight into the Scandinavian state of energy harvesting business from an industry perspective with the implemented and future solutions enabled by energy harvesting.
3:00 Next-Gen Sensors Unplugged
Gregory Kostkowich, Ph.D., Research & Development, Alta Devices
Cut the cord for good with a product that you never plug-in. Applying Alta Devices high efficiency Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) solar technology to power the next generation of sensors. Learn how GaAs and thin film solar can (em)Power the unplugged World.
3:30 Refreshment Break with Poster Viewing
4:10 PLENARY PANEL DISCUSSION: Sensor Commercialization - Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator:
Lisa Friedersdorf, Deputy Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office, National Nanotechnology Initiative
Panelists:
Steve Semancik, Ph.D., Physicist and Project Leader, Biomolecular Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Joshua Windmiller, Ph.D., CTO, Electrozyme, LLC
Len Sheynblat, Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm
This panel will focus on the identification and discussion of challenges that are faced by the sensor development community during the fabrication, integration, and commercialization of sensors. The National Nanotechnology Coordination Office (NNCO) provides technical and administrative support to the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee, serves as a central point of contact for Federal nanotechnology R&D activities, and provides public outreach on behalf of the National Nanotechnology Initiative.
5:10 End of Day One
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Wednesday, November 11
8:30 am Conference Registration and Morning Coffee
8:55 Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
Perena Gouma, Ph.D., Professor, Materials Science and Engineering; Director, Center for Nanomaterials and Sensor Development, SUNY Stony Brook
PLENARY KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
9:00 Personalization in Sensor-Rich Environments
Martha G. Russell, Executive Director, mediaX, Stanford University
The right message, at the right time, in the right place is increasingly an expectation of consumer and business information systems. As context awareness emerges as a differentiating factor for interactive applications, both embedded and mobile sensors are evolving to contribute to this vision. Personal identity is a complex, dynamic construct. It is simultaneously individual and social, predictable and emergent, often culturally and situationally dependent. New opportunities for personalization in sensor-rich environments include frontiers in human sciences, as well as in information technologies.
9:30 Nano-Enabled Biosensors: From Bench-to-Bedside
Christopher M. Hartshorn, Ph.D., Program Manager, Office of Cancer Nanotechnology Research, National Cancer Institute
Nano-enabled biosensors (e.g. biosensors utilizing nanotechnology for recognition, transduction, or both) offer much potential with their inherent high surface-to-volume ratios, multi-functionality, and unique physical/chemical properties. Regardless of what combination of recognition element/material/signal transduction mechanism eventually employed, an ideal biosensor must be able to effectively discriminate the analyte(s), detect low quantities, and have a broad dynamic range. This talk will focus on several in vitro and in vivo nano-enabled diagnostic sensing platforms that are at multiple stages of the development and commercialization pathway. Exploration into their needs for successful translation as well as future trends in their application to personalized medicine and cancer will be discussed.
10:00 Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
10:25 Chairperson’s Remarks
Peter Kiesel, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, PARC, a Xerox company
10:30 Wireless Charging of Small Connected Devices
Bill von Novak, Principal Engineer, Qualcomm
Small connected devices - sensors, thermostats, smart tags and wearables - are proliferating in the marketplace rapidly. They have unique requirements both for batteries and for charging; often requirements for temperature ranges, environmental sealing, form factors, use patterns and port access are significantly different from traditional portable devices. This presentation will look at the unique challenges and benefits that wireless battery charging brings to the power systems for small connected devices.
11:00 Content Independent Backlight Power Savings for Battery Life Extension
Kamal Shah, Director, EBL Initiative and System Architecture Management, Intel Corporation
Longer battery life is a very highly desirable feature for any mobile device usually ranked in top three. Display backlight is a key contributor to platform power consumption. This presentation discusses how a local tone mapping technology using proprietary pixel by pixel processing based on ambient light sensor derived value can deliver optimal visual quality while reducing display backlight and thus extending battery life.
11:30 Li-ion Battery Cells with Embedded Fiber-Optic Sensing for Advanced Battery Management
Peter Kiesel, Ph.D., Principal Scientist, PARC, a Xerox company
Under the ARPA-E AMPED program for advanced battery management systems, PARC and LG Chem Power are developing SENSOR (Smart Embedded Network of Sensors with an Optical Readout), an optically based smart monitoring system targeting batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs). The system is using fiber optic (FO) sensors embedded within Lithium (Li)-ion batteries to measure parameters indicative of cell state in conjunction with PARC’s low-cost, compact wavelength-shift detection technology and intelligent algorithms to enable effective real-time performance management and optimized battery design.
12:00 pm Closing Remarks and End of Conference
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