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Yongchen Rao, M.Sc.
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Field of research
- Thermoelectric Generator
- Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
Research project
Since November 2019 Mr. Rao is supported by a Jade2Pro scholarship program of Jade University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the University of Rostock, working towards a Ph.D. project: “Fabrication strategies for high efficiency thermoelectric generators for electrically active implants”.
Curriculum Vitae
| seit 11/2019 | Ph.D. Student, Jade University of Applied Sciences und University of Rostock |
| 10/2017 - 10/2019 | Master of Science Electric Technique, University of Rostock |
| 09/2012 - 06/2016 | Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China |
Publications
Contributions to International Journals (first author)
- Y. Rao, C. Xu, M. Voss, P. Ying; H- Reith, K. Nielsch, T. Bechtold, D. Hohlfeld, “Fabrication and Characterization of a Thermoelectric Generator with High Aspect Ratio Thermolegs for Electrically Active Implants”, Advanced Materials Technologies, vol. 9, no. 1, 2024.
- Y. Rao, T. Bechtold and D. Hohlfeld, “Design Optimization of a Packaged Thermoelectric Generator for Electrically Active Implants”, Microelectronics Reliability, vol. 139, pp. 114843, 2022.
- Y. Rao*, C. Yuan*, G. Sadashivaiah, D. Hohlfeld, T, Bechtold, “Efficient Design Optimization of a Miniaturized Thermoelectric Generator for Electrically Active Implants Based on Parametric Model Order Reduction”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, vol. 37(10), e3517, 2021, doi: 10.1002/cnm.3517.
* Contribution 50%
Contributions to International Journals (co-author)
- S. Bouhedma, Y. Rao, A. Schütz, C. Yuan, S. Hu, F. Lange, T. Bechtold, and D. Hohlfeld, “System-Level Model and Simulation of a Frequency-Tunable Vibration Energy Harvester”, Micromachines, vol. 11(1), p. 91, Jan. 2020.
Conference Publications
- Y. Rao, M. Voss, T. Bechtold, D. Hohlfeld, “Implantable Thermoelectric Generator with High Aspect Ratio Thermolegs and Integrated Voltage Converter”,22nd International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS), December 2023, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
- Y. Rao, T. Bechtold and D. Hohlfeld, “Fabrication Strategy for a Thermoelectric Generator with High-aspect-ratio Thermolegs for Electrically Active Implants”, EASS 2022, 11th GMM-Symposium, July 2022, Erfurt, Germany.
- Y. Rao, C. Xu, T. Bechtold and D. Hohlfeld, “Packaged Thermoelectric Generator with High-aspect-ratio Thermocouple Legs for Electrically Active Implants”, 2022 23rd International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), April 2022, St Julian, Malta.
- Y. Rao, S. Bouhedma, T. Bechtold and D. Hohlfeld, “Parametric Simulation of a Packaged Thermoelectric Generator for Electrically Active Implants”, 2021 22nd International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), April 2021.
- Y. Rao, S. Kress, C. Yuan, T. Bechtold, D. Hohlfeld, “Thermoelectric energy harvesting in medical implants”, GMM-Workshop Energieautonome Sensorsysteme, March 2020.
- S. Bouhedma, Y. Rao, A. Schütz, T. Bechtold, D. Hohlfeld, “Towards a Self-adaptive Dual-frequency Vibration-based Harvester”, GMM-Workshop Energieautonome Sensorsysteme, March 2020.
- Y. Rao, S. Bouhedma, C. Yuan, T. Bechtold and D. Hohlfeld, “Towards a System-Level Model of a Tunable Dual-Frequency Piezoelectric Energy Harvester”, 2020 21st International Conference on Thermal, Mechanical and Multi-Physics Simulation and Experiments in Microelectronics and Microsystems (EuroSimE), July 2020.
- S. Bouhedma, Y. Rao, Y. Zhang, F. Lange and D. Hohlfeld, “Self-Tuning Dual-Frequency Piezoelectric Energy Harvester”, Proc. Mikrosystemtechnik-Kongress , October 2019, Berlin, Germany.