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University of Southampton (School of Electronics and Computer Science)

Address: Southampton, Hampshire, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
URL: 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

Related Projects

Relevant White Papers, Reports and Case Studies
Alex Weddell, (2010) Notes from Hanson Wade EH Conference. In: Informal Notes, April 2010, Munich, Germany.

Relevant Publications

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

Relevant Publications
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
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

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.

Related Projects

Relevant Publications

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


Leran Wang (Phil)

E-Mail: lw04r [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk

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.

Related Projects

Relevant Publications


Mehdi Hendijanizadeh

E-Mail: mehdi.hendijani [AT] gmail.com

Biography
PhD


Neil White

Position: Professor
E-Mail: nmw [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380583765

Related Projects

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.


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.



Nick Harris

E-Mail: nrh [AT] ecs.soton.ac.uk
Telephone: 02380 593274

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.

Steve Beeby, John Tudor, Nick Harris, (2012) Vibration energy harvesting using the Halbach array. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 21, (7), 075020-.


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.


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.



Russel Torah

Position: Senior Research Fellow
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
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

Blog Posts

Related Projects

Relevant Publications
Derek Arthur, Steve Beeby, (2014) A miniature coupled bistable vibration energy harvester. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557, 012124.

Kantida Pancharoen, Steve Beeby, (2014) A hip implant energy harvester. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557, 012038.

Junjie Shi, Steve Beeby, (2014) An investigation of PDMS structures for optimized ferroelectret performance. In: Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 557, 012104.


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.

Steve Beeby, (2013) A broadband electromagnetic energy harvester with a coupled bistable structure. In: PowerMEMS 2013, London, GB, 03 - 06 Dec 2013.

Steve Beeby, (2013) A coupled bistable structure for broadband vibration energy harvesting. In: Transducers 2013 , Barcelona, ES, 16 - 20 Jun 2013..


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 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, (2012) Vibration energy harvesting using the Halbach array. In: Smart Materials and Structures, 21, (7), 075020-.


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.



William Redman-White

Position: Professor of IC Design
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


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