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The development of micro-energy harvesting technology provides a new energy solution for wireless sensor nodes (WSNs). Due to the intermittent power supplied by single environmental energy source, this paper proposes a hybrid energy harvesting architecture that harvest magnetic field (50–60 Hz) and solar energy simultaneously, which aims to provide a sustainable power supply for WSNs. Firstly, the design of free-standing “I-shaped” magnetic field transducer is introduced, which can harvest 0.17–0.46 mW underneath 700 A power transmission line. A further design of a rectifier and matching circuit is conducted and the maximum power point (MPP) of the hybrid energy harvesting circuit is about 60% of the open circuit voltage and the conversion efficiency reaches 61.68%. The experimental results show that the hybrid solar and “I-shaped” transducer can accomplish “cold start” operation of the power management unit (PMU) under magnetic flux density of 4.5 μT and light intensity of 200 lx, which will also provide a promising supply of energy for WSNs.
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Cao, D., Jia, Jr., Xie, Mj., Lei, Y., Li, W. (2019). Hybrid Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field and Solar Energy Harvesting Architecture for Self-Powered Wireless Sensor System. In: Biagioni, E., Zheng, Y., Cheng, S. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11604. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23597-0_3
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