Download or read book Mod lisation Et Fabrication de Syst mes de Conversion Thermo m canique Pour la R cup ration D nergie Thermique written by Arthur Arnaud and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of energy harvesting systems is linked to the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and especially the proliferation of Wireless Sensors Networks that should respond to the growing needs for monitoring data in domains as diverse as the industry, the urban or natural environments, the home, or the human body etc. Recent progress in the field of information technologies have enabled to remove some of the technical obstables to the deployment of these smart and autonom devices, in particular thanks to the improvement of the performances of microelectronic components, the design of ultra-low-power circuits, or the creation of wireless communications standards adapted to the energy needs of wireless sensors. Given the great availability of energy sources, energy harvesters are reliable alternatives to batteries in order to extend the autonomy of these sensors. Various technologies of generators have been developped to adapt to the type of local energy sources (heat, vibration, light, radio-frequencies).The present work is a contribution to the development of thermal energy harvesters exploting the thermal and mechanical properties of bimetal thermostats. This type of technology developped at STMicroelectronics are intended to be a reliable and low-cost alternative to the use of thermoelectric materials exploing Seebeck effect to generate electricity from heat. Various devices were already fabricated at the macro-scale, demonstrating their ability to power wireless sensor nodes. In the continuity of these works, this PhD thesis aims to demonstrate the operation of these generators at the sub-millimetric scale. As a consequence, an important work on the modeling of the thermo-mechanical instability of bimetallic strips was made to understand the operation of bimetallic strip heat engines. This work enabled to theoretically demonstrate the capability of bimetallic to transform heat into mechanical energy and to evaluate the performances of such heat engines. Coupling between bimetallic strip heat engines and electro-mechanical transducers was also modeled to compare the performances of the current prototypes of generators. We then modeled the thermo-mechanical behavior of composite beams at the microscale and established scaling rules of the performances of the bimetallic strip heat engines, We finally developped microlectronic fabrication process to manufacture thermo-mechanically bistable beams at the microscale.
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