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The BBC World News team reviews the latest gadgets and major technology news. This week they reported on the history and future of the microchip, where reducing power consumption while increasing performance is driving the industry. This video shows how Texas Instruments’ MSP430 ultra-low power microcontroller is powered solely by AdaptivEnergy’s Joule-Thief™ Module for a [...]

Energy harvesting has been steadily gaining interest in the technology sector, but without useful applications it will remain just an intellectual curiosity. The continuously decreasing power requirements of electronics, however, have increased the number of applications for which this technology can be used effectively. One such application is the wireless sensor system. click here to [...]

The last time I really got my hands dirty playing with a piezoelectric transducer was for a small control system I designed back in college. That was a generic device that was more or less plug-and-go, so I can’t recall much about it. However, given the recent uptick in interest in energy-harvesting technology as a [...]

HAMPTON, Virginia – December 3, 2008 – AdaptivEnergy has successfully doubled the power output of the Joule-Thief™ Energy Harvesting Power Generator. The performance increase was the result of ongoing development of AdaptivEnergy’s unique stress biased RLP® technology to achieve significantly greater stress in the core piezoceramic material. For a given input the ability to increase [...]

For many, the concept of energy harvesting is tightly associated with the ‘green’ movement. While that’s certainly one aspect, it overlooks a whole range of applications that have less to do with solving the world’s so-called energy crisis and more to do with solving the problem of powering remote or embedded devices — indefinitely. That [...]

AdaptivEnergy’s RLP® Vibratory Fan improves cooling effectiveness over natural convection and is more cost and space efficient than traditional rotary fans. Unlike competing piezo fan products, the RLP® Vibratory Fan mated with Energy Key™ technology provides for maximum air movement throughout its operating temperature and humidity range. Improves cooling effectiveness over natural convection Very quiet [...]

AdaptivEnergy has spent years of research developing a lamination technique for producing stress biased piezoelectric composites in various sizes and shapes. The RLP® smart material has been designed and manufactured such that its core electroactive Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) ceramic component is held in compression, thereby minimizing the possibility of tensile failure of the PZT [...]

AdaptivEnergy (AE) has developed the Joule-Thief™ energy harvesting solution using RLP® (Ruggedized Laminated Piezo) technology to scavenge energy from ambient sources and convert it to usable electrical power to be stored in batteries or capacitors for further use.  The energy harvesting system consists of a Joule-Thief™ Smart Energy Beam™ and Energy Key™ collection and storage [...]

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