Power Harvesting for Bosch Products

Dr Inna Kozinsky, MEMS Research Engineer
Robert Bosch LLC
 
 
This presentation was given at Energy Harvesting & Storage USA 2009 on Nov 03, 2009.
 

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Presentation Summary

  • Bosch has a diverse portfolio of products in automotive, industrial, consumer, and household sectors that can benefit from power harvesting.
  • Quantitative analysis of several application examples shows that mW-level power in a few cubic cm volume is required.
  • We also discuss how cost and reliability requirements of specific applications place an additional constraint on power harvester design.

Speaker Biography

Inna Kozinsky received her BA in Physics and Mathematics and MA in Physics from Harvard in 2000 and her PhD in Physics from California Institute of Technology in 2007. Her doctoral research focused on studying nonlinear effects in nano-electro-mechanical systems (NEMS). She joined Bosch Research and Technology Center in 2007 and is working on power harvesting for a variety of applications as well as on thin-film photovoltaic technologies.

Company Profile

Bosch is one of the world's top manufacturers of automobile components, industrial machinery, power tools, and household appliances. Headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, the Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and more than 300 subsidiaries and regional companies in over 60 countries. The company is unusual in that it is an extremely large, privately owned corporation that is almost entirely (92%) owned by a charitable foundation. Bosch spends a significant amount on research and development worldwide: more than 3.5 billion Euros in 2008, or 8% of the sales revenue. Established in 1999 to add an international dimension to research, Bosch Research and Technology Center in Palo Alto, CA, conducts research in micro-systems (MEMS), integrated circuits, energy conversion and storage, human-computer interaction, and wireless technologies.