MEMS energy harvester for wireless biosensors

This paper reports a motion energy harvester integrated with a battery-less wireless transmitter, and the successful transmission of low power pulses representing sensor data. An electrostatic harvester, primed by voltage representing sensor data, delivers output pulses to a resonant transmitter with an integrated antenna. This is the first ever reported demonstration, to our knowledge, of wireless sensor transmission solely powered by MEMS energy harvesting devices.