University of Southampton (School of Electronics and Computer Science)
Address: Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ, United KingdomURL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
The School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton is the UK's leading academic department integrating computer science, electronics, and electrical engineering. With over 500 researchers in the School, ECS has unrivalled depth and breadth of expertise in world-leading research, new developments and their applications. We offer world-leading education in a world-leading research environment. Our 800 undergraduate students are enrolled on 23 different degree programmes, all of them providing intensive and challenging courses which prepare students fully for roles in business and industry, as well as research and development.
Today ECS is the UK's largest research grouping in the area, with around 250 academic and research staff, and 250 research students. It has around 800 undergraduate students and over 170 MSc students. It receives the highest ratings for its research and is funded by UK government agencies, the European Union, and companies and agencies worldwide. Its research is carried out in 11 world-leading research groups, it hosts national research centres and unique facilities, and has a well-deserved reputation for enterprise and the establishment of spin-off companies.
Alex Weddell
Position: Research Fellow
URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/asw
E-Mail: asw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 4996
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URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/asw
E-Mail: asw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 4996
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Alex Weddell, (2010) Notes from Hanson Wade EH Conference. In: Informal Notes, April 2010, Munich, Germany.
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Steve Beeby, Leran Wang (Phil), Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Bernard Stark, Bashir M Al-Hashimi, (2013) A comparison of power output from linear and non-linear kinetic energy harvesters using real vibration data. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 22, (7).
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2011) Photovoltaic Sample-and-Hold Circuit Enabling MPPT Indoors for Low-Power Systems. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, (in press).
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Tom Kazmierski, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2011) Accurate Supercapacitor Modeling for Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, (in press).
Alex Weddell, Dr Neil Grabham, Nick Harris, Neil White, (2009) Modular Plug-and-Play Power Resources for Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Nodes. In: Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks - SECON 2009, 22-26 June 2009, Rome, Italy.
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Nick Harris, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2008) Energy Harvesting and Management for Wireless Autonomous Sensors. In: Measurement + Control, 41 (4). pp. 104-108. ISSN 0020-2940.
Dr Neil Grabham
Position: Senior Research Fellow
E-Mail: njg [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
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E-Mail: njg [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Alex Weddell, Dr Neil Grabham, Nick Harris, Neil White, (2009) Modular Plug-and-Play Power Resources for Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Nodes. In: Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks - SECON 2009, 22-26 June 2009, Rome, Italy.
Elena Koukharenko
Position: Visiting Senior Reserch Fellow in ECS
E-Mail: ak [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380599242
Biography
E-Mail: ak [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380599242
Biography
Dr Elena Koukharenko was awarded her PhD in 2000 from University of Montpellier II (France) working on Fabrication, microstructural and electrical characterisations of thermoelectric Bi-Sb-Te thin films by ultrarapid quenching process for thermoelectric applications. Since 2001 she has been employed at the University of Southampton at the School of Electronics in School of Computer Science/Physics where she has built up world-leading expertise in designing, fabricating and modelling of various MEMS for renewable energy, involving nanostructured materials and thin film semi-conductor micro/nanotechnologies. She has an outstanding background in thermoelectric materials as 9 years of her career were dedicated to this subject, where she has over 60 publications and 1 patent. She was a leading author and a co-Investigator on the EPSRC-funded project Highly-efficient thermoelectric power harvesting (EP/D076250/1).
Geoff Merrett
Position: Professor
URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/gvm
E-Mail: gvm [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 2775
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URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/gvm
E-Mail: gvm [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 2775
Biography
Geoff Merrett is a Professor of Electronic and Software Systems at the University of Southampton. He is Head of the Centre for Internet of Things (IoT) and Pervasive Systems, a strategic research centre in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, and is based in its Cyber Physical Systems Research Group. His research interests are in energy management of mobile/embedded systems and self-powered devices. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of IET, and a Fellow of the HEA.
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Steve Beeby, Leran Wang (Phil), Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Bernard Stark, Bashir M Al-Hashimi, (2013) A comparison of power output from linear and non-linear kinetic energy harvesters using real vibration data. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 22, (7).
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2011) Photovoltaic Sample-and-Hold Circuit Enabling MPPT Indoors for Low-Power Systems. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, (in press).
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Tom Kazmierski, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2011) Accurate Supercapacitor Modeling for Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Nodes. In: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, (in press).
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Nick Harris, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2008) Energy Harvesting and Management for Wireless Autonomous Sensors. In: Measurement + Control, 41 (4). pp. 104-108. ISSN 0020-2940.
Kai Yang
Position: Research Fellow
URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/ky2
E-Mail: ky2 [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380 596665
URL: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/ky2
E-Mail: ky2 [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380 596665
Leran Wang (Phil)
E-Mail: lw04r [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
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Biography
Leran Wang received his MSc degree from the University of Liverpool and PhD degree from University of Southampton, in 2004 and 2009 respectively. Before coming to UK, he received the BEng degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2003. He is currently a research fellow at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. His research interest focus on HDL based modelling and optimisation of mixed physical domain systems for energy harvesting, automotive and MEMS applications.
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Steve Beeby, Leran Wang (Phil), Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Bernard Stark, Bashir M Al-Hashimi, (2013) A comparison of power output from linear and non-linear kinetic energy harvesters using real vibration data. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 22, (7).
Mehdi Hendijanizadeh
E-Mail: mehdi.hendijani [AT] gmail.com
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Neil White
Position: Professor
E-Mail: nmw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380583765
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E-Mail: nmw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380583765
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Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Neil White, Nick Harris, (2013) A novel miniature airflow energy harvester for wireless sensing applications in buildings. In: IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, (2), 691-700.
Peter Glynne-Jones, Neil White, Nick Harris, Russel Torah, Steve Beeby, (2013) Screen printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting. In: Advances in Applied Ceramics, 112, (2), 79-84.
Dr. Kok Swee Leong (Stephen), Neil White, Nick Harris, (2009) Fabrication and characterisation of free-standing thick-film piezoelectric cantilevers for energy harvesting.. In: Measurement Science and Technology, Volume 20, Number 12 .
Alex Weddell, Dr Neil Grabham, Nick Harris, Neil White, (2009) Modular Plug-and-Play Power Resources for Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Nodes. In: Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks - SECON 2009, 22-26 June 2009, Rome, Italy.
Dr. Kok Swee Leong (Stephen), Neil White, Nick Harris, (2008) Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric device. In: Electronics Letters , Volume 44, Issue 4 .
Nick Harris
E-Mail: nrh [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380 593274
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Telephone: 02380 593274
Relevant Publications
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Neil White, Nick Harris, (2013) A novel miniature airflow energy harvester for wireless sensing applications in buildings. In: IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, (2), 691-700.
Peter Glynne-Jones, Neil White, Nick Harris, Russel Torah, Steve Beeby, (2013) Screen printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting. In: Advances in Applied Ceramics, 112, (2), 79-84.
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (2012) Vibration energy harvesting using the Halbach array. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 21, (7), 075020-.
Nick Harris, Steve Beeby, (2012) Performance of Linear Vibration Energy Harvesters under Broadband Vibrations with Multiple Frequency Peaks. In: Eurosensors XXVI, Krakow, Poland, 09 - 12 Sep 2012..
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (2011) A credit card sized self powered smart sensor node. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical , 169 (2), 317-325.
Dr. Kok Swee Leong (Stephen), Neil White, Nick Harris, (2009) Fabrication and characterisation of free-standing thick-film piezoelectric cantilevers for energy harvesting.. In: Measurement Science and Technology, Volume 20, Number 12 .
Alex Weddell, Dr Neil Grabham, Nick Harris, Neil White, (2009) Modular Plug-and-Play Power Resources for Energy-Aware Wireless Sensor Nodes. In: Sixth Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks - SECON 2009, 22-26 June 2009, Rome, Italy.
Dr. Kok Swee Leong (Stephen), Neil White, Nick Harris, (2008) Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric device. In: Electronics Letters , Volume 44, Issue 4 .
Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Nick Harris, Bashir Al-Hashimi, (2008) Energy Harvesting and Management for Wireless Autonomous Sensors. In: Measurement + Control, 41 (4). pp. 104-108. ISSN 0020-2940.
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (0) Increasing output power of electromagnetic vibration energy harvesters using improved Halbach arrays. In: Sensors and Actuators A Physical, 203, 11-19.
Russel Torah
Position: Senior Research Fellow
E-Mail: rnt [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380 592600
Biography
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E-Mail: rnt [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380 592600
Biography
Previously worked on the successful FP6 EU project, VIBES. Helped to develop the electromagnetic generator and power conditioning circuit for a wireless sensor node. The generator produced a normalised power density much higher than anything else published at the time.
Relevant Publications
Peter Glynne-Jones, Neil White, Nick Harris, Russel Torah, Steve Beeby, (2013) Screen printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting. In: Advances in Applied Ceramics, 112, (2), 79-84.
Sasikumar Arumugam
Position: PDRA
E-Mail: S.Arumugam [AT] soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380599318
Biography
E-Mail: S.Arumugam [AT] soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380599318
Biography
Sasi received his BSc and MSc degree in Chemistry from Bishop Heber College, India. He worked on a project at Anna University, Chennai, India, and involved synthesis of nano-hybrid polymers for anticorrosive and antifouling coatings. He was then selected for Scottish Overseas Research Award Scheme (SORAS) to carry out his PhD programme. His doctoral work dealt with synthesis and characterization of novel organic materials for Organic field effect transistors (OFET) and solar cells (OSC) under the supervision of Prof. Peter Skabara in the department of pure and applied Chemistry at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. He then joined Prof. Steve Beeby’s group, University of Southampton in 2013 as Post-doctoral Research Fellow to research fabrication of flexible solar cells for e-textile applications.
Steve Beeby
Position: Reader
E-Mail: spb [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 023 8059 6663
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E-Mail: spb [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 023 8059 6663
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20 Jul 2010: IDTechEx event: Energy Harvesting & Storage Europe and Wireless Sensor Networks & RTLS 2010
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Junjie Shi, Steve Beeby, (2014) An investigation of PDMS structures for optimized ferroelectret performance. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557, 012104.
Kantida Pancharoen, Steve Beeby, (2014) A hip implant energy harvester. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557, 012038.
Derek Arthur, Steve Beeby, (2014) A miniature coupled bistable vibration energy harvester. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557, 012124.
Steve Beeby, (2013) The importance of applications in the design and testing of vibration energy harvesters. In: Nanoenergy 2013, Perugia, Italy, 10 - 13 Jul 2013.
Steve Beeby, (2013) A coupled bistable structure for broadband vibration energy harvesting. In: Transducers 2013 , Barcelona, ES, 16 - 20 Jun 2013..
Steve Beeby, (2013) A broadband electromagnetic energy harvester with a coupled bistable structure. In: PowerMEMS 2013, London, GB, 03 - 06 Dec 2013.
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Neil White, Nick Harris, (2013) A novel miniature airflow energy harvester for wireless sensing applications in buildings. In: IEEE Sensors Journal, 13, (2), 691-700.
Paul Mitcheson, Eric Yeatman, John Tudor, Steve Beeby, (2013) Magnetic tuning of a kinetic energy harvester using variable reluctance. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical , 189, 266-275.
Peter Glynne-Jones, Neil White, Nick Harris, Russel Torah, Steve Beeby, (2013) Screen printed piezoelectric films for energy harvesting. In: Advances in Applied Ceramics, 112, (2), 79-84.
Neil J Grabham, Steve Beeby, John M Tudor, (2013) Review of the application of energy harvesting in buildings. In: Measurement Science and Technology, doi:10.1088/0957-0233/25/1/012002.
Steve Beeby, Leran Wang (Phil), Alex Weddell, Geoff Merrett, Bernard Stark, Bashir M Al-Hashimi, (2013) A comparison of power output from linear and non-linear kinetic energy harvesters using real vibration data. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 22, (7).
Nick Harris, Steve Beeby, (2012) Performance of Linear Vibration Energy Harvesters under Broadband Vibrations with Multiple Frequency Peaks. In: Eurosensors XXVI, Krakow, Poland, 09 - 12 Sep 2012..
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (2012) Vibration energy harvesting using the Halbach array. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 21, (7), 075020-.
Steve Roberts, Thomas Mouille, John Tudor, Steve Beeby, (2012) General model with experimental validation of electrical resonant frequency tuning of electromagnetic vibration energy harvesters. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 21, (10), 105039.
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (2011) A credit card sized self powered smart sensor node. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical , 169 (2), 317-325.
Ivo N Ayala-Garcia, Steve Beeby, M J Tudor, (2010) Tunable kinetic energy harvester with dynamic over range protection. In: Smart Materials and Structures, vol 19, 115005.
Steve Roberts, Michael John Tudor, Steve Beeby, (2010) Design and experimental characterization of a tunable vibration-based electromagnetic micro-generator. In: Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 158 (2). pp. 284-293.
Dibin Zhu , Michael John Tudor, Steve Beeby, (2010) Strategies for increasing the operating frequency range of vibration energy harvesters: a review. In: Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 21 022001.
Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (0) Increasing output power of electromagnetic vibration energy harvesters using improved Halbach arrays. In: Sensors and Actuators A Physical, 203, 11-19.
William Redman-White
Position: Professor of IC Design
E-Mail: wrw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
E-Mail: wrw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Yoshishige Tsuchiya
Position: Lecturer
E-Mail: yt2 [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 9312
E-Mail: yt2 [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)23 8059 9312
