Table of Contents -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Introduction: Background and Area of Application -- 1 Introduction to Electrostatic Kinetic Energy Harvesting -- 2 Capacitive Transducers -- 2.1. Presentation of capacitive transducers -- 2.2. Electrical operation of a variable capacitor -- 2.3. Energy and force in capacitive transducers -- 2.4. Energy conversion with a capacitive transducer -- 2.5. Optimization of the operation of a capacitive transducer -- 2.6. Electromechanical coupling -- 2.7. Conclusions -- 2.8. Appendix: proof of formula [2.32] for the energy converted in a cycle -- 3 Mechanical Aspects of Kinetic Energy Harvesters: Linear Resonators -- 3.1. Overview of mechanical forces and the resonator model -- 3.2. Interaction of the harvester with the environment -- 3.3. Natural dynamics of the linear resonator -- 3.4. The mechanical impedance -- 3.5. Concluding remarks -- 4 Mechanical Aspects of Kinetic Energy Harvesters: Nonlinear Resonators -- 4.1. Nonlinear resonators with mechanically induced nonlinearities -- 4.2. Review of other nonlinearities affecting the dynamics of the resonator: impact, velocity and frequency amplification and electrical softening -- 4.3. Concluding remarks: effectiveness of linear and nonlinear resonators -- 5 Fundamental Effects of Nonlinearity -- 5.1. Fundamental nonlinear effects: anisochronous and anharmonic oscillations -- 5.2. Semi-analytical techniques for nonlinear resonators -- 5.3. Concluding remarks -- 6 Nonlinear Resonance and its Application to Electrostatic Kinetic Energy Harvesters -- 6.1. Forced nonlinear resonator and nonlinear resonance -- 6.2. Electromechanical analysis of an electrostatic kinetic energy harvester -- 6.3. Concluding remarks -- 7 MEMS Device Engineering for e-KEH -- 7.1. Silicon-based MEMS fabrication technologies.

7.2. Typical designs for the electrostatic transducer -- 7.3. e-KEHs with an electret layer -- 8 Basic Conditioning Circuits for Capacitive Kinetic Energy Harvesters -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Overview of conditioning circuit for capacitive kinetic energy harvesting -- 8.3. Continuous conditioning circuit: generalities -- 8.4. Practical study of continuous conditioning circuits -- 8.5. Shortcomings of the elementary conditioning circuits: auto-increasing of the biasing -- 9 Circuits Implementing Triangular QV Cycles -- 9.1. Energy transfer in capacitive circuits -- 9.2. Conditioning circuits implementing triangular QV cycles -- 9.3. Circuits implementing triangular QV cycles: conclusion -- 10 Circuits Implementing Rectangular QV Cycles, Part I -- 10.1. Study of the rectangular QV cycle -- 10.2. Practical implementation of the charge pump -- 10.3. Shortcomings of the single charge pump and required improvements -- 10.4. Architectures of the charge pump with flyback -- 10.5. Conditioning circuits based on the Bennet's doubler -- 11 Circuits Implementing Rectangular QV Cycles, Part II -- 11.1. Analysis of the half-wave rectifier with a transducer biased by an electret -- 11.2. Analysis of the full-wave diode rectifier with transducer biased by an electret -- 11.3. Dynamic behavior and electromechanical coupling of rectangular QV cycle conditioning circuits -- 11.4. Practical use of conditioning circuits with rectangular QV cycle -- 11.5. Conclusion on conditioning circuits for e-KEHs -- Bibliography -- Index -- End User License Agreement.