MicroGen Systems, Inc. is located at the Cornell Business & Technology Park in Ithaca, NY. MicroGen is developing a patent-pending MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) based Piezoelectric Vibrational Energy Harvester (PZEH). The microfabrication development efforts are being completed at the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility (www.cnf.cornell.edu).
MicroGen's micro-scale BOLT(TM) power generator is intended to provide an alternate power source to the battery for low-power electronics, and wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. These applications include Smart Energy/Grid (e.g. reducing energy usage in computer server rooms), Smart Transportation (e.g. vibration sensors on planes and trains; tire-pressure monitoring systems on automobiles), Smart Infrastructure (e.g. monitoring the structural integrity of bridges), and Homeland Security (e.g. Smart Asset Tracking) and defense applications (e.g. anti-tamper electronics).
The BOLT product is a 1-axis inertial device. These will produce voltages >5 Volts and power >100 uWatts (single 1x1 cm2 chip) at 60 and 120Hz +/- 2 Hz and 1g acceleration with greater than 20 year reliability.
MicroGen's next generation PZEH product line is called the VIBE(tm) - Vibration Induced Broadband Excitation. These are multi-axis (2 or 3) inertial devices with a power generation range of 10 to 50 Hz, or more depending upon design. This product line will serve markets with varying dominent vibrational frequencies.
Specialties
MEMS design and development, piezolectrics, energy harvesting, inertial devices
