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Cuong Phu Le

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Cuong Phu Le

Associate Professor
Department of Electronic Systems
Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

cuong.le@ntnu.no
+4794257411 A363 ElektroA Gløshaugen, Trondheim
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About

Cuong Phu Le has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Systems. He received the B.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in 2005, the M.Sc. degree in microsystem technology from the Vestfold University College, Horten, Norway, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in microsystems technology from the University of Oslo, Norway, in 2013. 

His main research interest is in microsystem design, MEMS energy harvesting and power management circuit.

Publications

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  • All publications registered in NVA

2025

  • Le, Phu Cuong; Truong, Binh Duc. (2025) A MEMS electrostatic energy harvester with quasi-zero stiffness control for ultra-low-frequency operation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering
    Academic article

2024

  • Su, Shengkai; Truong, Binh Duc; Aunet, Snorre; Le, Phu Cuong. (2024) A Versatile MEMS Electrostatic Transducer Structure To Achieve Near-Zero Stiffness For Low-Frequency Energy Harvesting.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2023

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong. (2023) Theoretical analysis of electrostatic energy harvester configured as Bennet's doubler based on Q-V cycles. International journal of circuit theory and applications
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Roundy, Shad. (2023) Are piezoelectric-electromagnetic hybrid energy harvesting systems beneficial?. Smart materials and structures (Print)
    Academic article

2022

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Roundy, Shad. (2022) Piezoelectric–Electromagnetic Hybrid Energy Harvesting System: When is it Useful?.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

  • Su, Shengkai; Truong, Binh Duc; Aunet, Snorre; Le, Phu Cuong. (2021) A reliable and wide-range tuning technique for low-frequency MEMS energy harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2019

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2019) On the lateral instability analysis of MEMS comb-drive electrostatic transducers. Sensors
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2019) Analysis of MEMS electrostatic energy harvesters electrically configured as voltage multipliers. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications
    Academic article

2018

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2018) Comparative performance of voltage multipliers for MEMS vibration-based energy harvesters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2018) Electrode optimization of an electret-based vibration generator in slot-effect configuration. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar; Roundy, Shad. (2018) Power-electronic-interface topology for MEMS energy harvesting with multiple transducers. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article

2017

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Analysis of Power Electronic Interface for Capacitive MEMS Energy Harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Thuy Thi-Thien; Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Sager, Sebastian. (2017) On the power optimization of the vibration-based energy harvesters under swept input acceleration. Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Analysis of Electrostatic Energy Harvesters Electrically Configured as Bennet's Doublers. IEEE Sensors Journal
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Parameter identification from frequency response of MEMS energy harvesters. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Equivalent-circuit models for electret-based vibration energy harvesters. Smart materials and structures (Print)
    Academic article

2016

  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2016) MEMS electrostatic influence machines. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2016) Power optimization and effective stiffness for a vibration energy harvester with displacement constraints. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Renaud, Michael; Halvorsen, Einar. (2016) Equivalent-circuit model for slot-effect configuration of an electret-based generator. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Kaur, Sukhdeep; Le, Cuong Phu. (2016) End-Stop Nonlinearities in Vibration Energy Harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2015

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2015) Experiments on power optimization for displacement-constrained operation of a vibration energy harvester. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2015) Experimentally verified model of electrostatic energy harvester with internal impacts. Proceedings, IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
    Academic article
  • Phan, Tra Nguyen; Azadmehr, Mehdi; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2015) Low power electronic interface for electrostatic energy harvesters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article

2014

  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2014) Electric control of power extracting end-stop for MEMS vibration energy harvesting. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Tran, Trinh Thi Kim; Subramaniam, Sibi; Le, Cuong Phu; Kaur, Sukhdeep; Kalicinski, Stanislaw; Ekwinska, Magdalena. (2014) Design, Modeling, and characterization of a microelectromechanical diffuser device for laser speckle reduction. Journal of microelectromechanical systems
    Academic article

2013

  • Halvorsen, Einar; Le, Cuong Phu; Mitcheson, P.D.; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2013) Architecture-independent power bound for vibration energy harvesters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2013) Wideband excitation of an electrostatic vibration energy harvester with power-extracting end-stops. Smart materials and structures (Print)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2013) Impact-based electrostatic harvesters considered as a multi-source problem.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2013) Capacitance calculation for electrostatic transducer applications. Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2013) Wide tuning-range resonant-frequency control by combining electromechanical softening and hardening springs.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2012

  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2012) MEMS electrostatic energy harvesters with end-stop effects. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM)
    Academic article
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2012) Microscale energy harvesters with nonlinearities due to internal impacts.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2012) Microscale electrostatic energy harvester using internal impacts. Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures
    Academic article
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2012) Comparison of transducing end-stops with differentstiffness in mems electrostatic energy harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2011

  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2011) An electrostatic energy harvester with end-stop effects.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2011) An electrostatic energy harvester with power-extracting end stops driven by wideband vibrations.
    Chapter

2010

  • Husa, Svein; Le, Cuong Phu. (2010) The optimum period of the electrode structure on a shuttle harvester.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2009

  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2009) Electrostatic modeling of in-plane overlap energy harvesters. Power MEMS 2009: The 9th international workshop on micro and nanotechnology for power generation and energy conversion applications : technical digest
    Article in business/trade/industry journal
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2009) Evaluation of Parameters for Electrostatic Energy Harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

  • Le, Phu Cuong; Truong, Binh Duc. (2025) A MEMS electrostatic energy harvester with quasi-zero stiffness control for ultra-low-frequency operation. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong. (2023) Theoretical analysis of electrostatic energy harvester configured as Bennet's doubler based on Q-V cycles. International journal of circuit theory and applications
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Roundy, Shad. (2023) Are piezoelectric-electromagnetic hybrid energy harvesting systems beneficial?. Smart materials and structures (Print)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2019) On the lateral instability analysis of MEMS comb-drive electrostatic transducers. Sensors
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2019) Analysis of MEMS electrostatic energy harvesters electrically configured as voltage multipliers. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2018) Comparative performance of voltage multipliers for MEMS vibration-based energy harvesters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2018) Electrode optimization of an electret-based vibration generator in slot-effect configuration. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar; Roundy, Shad. (2018) Power-electronic-interface topology for MEMS energy harvesting with multiple transducers. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Le, Thuy Thi-Thien; Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Sager, Sebastian. (2017) On the power optimization of the vibration-based energy harvesters under swept input acceleration. Proceedings of IEEE Sensors
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Analysis of Electrostatic Energy Harvesters Electrically Configured as Bennet's Doublers. IEEE Sensors Journal
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Parameter identification from frequency response of MEMS energy harvesters. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Equivalent-circuit models for electret-based vibration energy harvesters. Smart materials and structures (Print)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2016) MEMS electrostatic influence machines. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2016) Power optimization and effective stiffness for a vibration energy harvester with displacement constraints. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Renaud, Michael; Halvorsen, Einar. (2016) Equivalent-circuit model for slot-effect configuration of an electret-based generator. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2015) Experiments on power optimization for displacement-constrained operation of a vibration energy harvester. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2015) Experimentally verified model of electrostatic energy harvester with internal impacts. Proceedings, IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
    Academic article
  • Phan, Tra Nguyen; Azadmehr, Mehdi; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2015) Low power electronic interface for electrostatic energy harvesters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2014) Electric control of power extracting end-stop for MEMS vibration energy harvesting. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Tran, Trinh Thi Kim; Subramaniam, Sibi; Le, Cuong Phu; Kaur, Sukhdeep; Kalicinski, Stanislaw; Ekwinska, Magdalena. (2014) Design, Modeling, and characterization of a microelectromechanical diffuser device for laser speckle reduction. Journal of microelectromechanical systems
    Academic article
  • Halvorsen, Einar; Le, Cuong Phu; Mitcheson, P.D.; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2013) Architecture-independent power bound for vibration energy harvesters. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2013) Wideband excitation of an electrostatic vibration energy harvester with power-extracting end-stops. Smart materials and structures (Print)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2013) Capacitance calculation for electrostatic transducer applications. Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2012) MEMS electrostatic energy harvesters with end-stop effects. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering (JMM)
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2012) Microscale electrostatic energy harvester using internal impacts. Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures
    Academic article
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2009) Electrostatic modeling of in-plane overlap energy harvesters. Power MEMS 2009: The 9th international workshop on micro and nanotechnology for power generation and energy conversion applications : technical digest
    Article in business/trade/industry journal

Part of book/report

  • Su, Shengkai; Truong, Binh Duc; Aunet, Snorre; Le, Phu Cuong. (2024) A Versatile MEMS Electrostatic Transducer Structure To Achieve Near-Zero Stiffness For Low-Frequency Energy Harvesting.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Roundy, Shad. (2022) Piezoelectric–Electromagnetic Hybrid Energy Harvesting System: When is it Useful?.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Su, Shengkai; Truong, Binh Duc; Aunet, Snorre; Le, Phu Cuong. (2021) A reliable and wide-range tuning technique for low-frequency MEMS energy harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2017) Analysis of Power Electronic Interface for Capacitive MEMS Energy Harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Kaur, Sukhdeep; Le, Cuong Phu. (2016) End-Stop Nonlinearities in Vibration Energy Harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2013) Impact-based electrostatic harvesters considered as a multi-source problem.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2013) Wide tuning-range resonant-frequency control by combining electromechanical softening and hardening springs.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2012) Microscale energy harvesters with nonlinearities due to internal impacts.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2012) Comparison of transducing end-stops with differentstiffness in mems electrostatic energy harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar. (2011) An electrostatic energy harvester with end-stop effects.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Cuong Phu; Halvorsen, Einar; Søråsen, Oddvar; Yeatman, Eric M.. (2011) An electrostatic energy harvester with power-extracting end stops driven by wideband vibrations.
    Chapter
  • Husa, Svein; Le, Cuong Phu. (2010) The optimum period of the electrode structure on a shuttle harvester.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Le, Phu Cuong; Halvorsen, Einar. (2009) Evaluation of Parameters for Electrostatic Energy Harvesters.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Teaching

Courses

  • TFE4202 - Sensor Systems Design 1
  • IELET3109 - Advanced Sensorsystems
  • IELS2031 - Electronics Design
  • IELET2900 - Bachelor Thesis Electrical Engineering
  • IELS3020 - Bachelor Thesis Electronic Systems Engineer
  • TFE4204 - Sensor Systems Design 2
  • IELS2003 - Engineering project III
  • IELS2002 - Engineering project II

Outreach

2024

  • Academic lecture
    Su, Shengkai; Truong, Binh Duc; Aunet, Snorre; Le, Phu Cuong. (2024) A Versatile MEMS Electrostatic Transducer Structure To Achieve Near-Zero Stiffness For Low-Frequency Energy Harvesting. PowerMEMS+ 2024 , Tønsberg 2024-11-18 - 2024-11-21

2022

  • Poster
    Truong, Binh Duc; Le, Phu Cuong; Roundy, Shad. (2022) Piezoelectric–Electromagnetic Hybrid Energy Harvesting System: When is it Useful?. 2022 IEEE 21th International Conference on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS) , Salt Lake City 2022-12-12 - 2022-12-15

2021

  • Academic lecture
    Su, Shengkai; Truong, Binh Duc; Aunet, Snorre; Le, Phu Cuong. (2021) A reliable and wide-range tuning technique for low-frequency MEMS energy harvesters. PowerMEMS 2021 , Virtual 2021-12-06 - 2021-12-08

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