Future deployment of wireless sensor networks will ultimately require a self-sustainable
local power source for each sensor, and vibration energy harvesting is a promising …

Vibration energy harvesting is an attractive technique for potential powering of wireless
sensors and low power devices. While the technique can be employed to harvest energy …

Over the past years, there has been growing interests in the field of power harvesting
technologies for low-power electronic devices such as wireless sensor networks and …

A piezoelectric energy harvester is an electromechanical device that converts ambient
mechanical vibration into electric power. Most existing vibration energy harvesting devices …

Vibration energy harvesting is being pursued as a means to power wireless sensors and
ultra-low power autonomous devices. From a design standpoint, matching the electrical …

This work is concerned with developing a vibration-based energy harvester with a tunable
natural frequency. The harvester is designed to automatically adjust its own natural …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting provides a means to harvest the ambient kinetic energy (eg,
vibrations and rotations) of structures for conversion into usable electricity. The technique …

The recent years have witnessed a wealth of research on energy harvesting technologies.
To maximize the output power, vibration-based energy harvesters are normally designed to …

This paper reports on a self-adaptive energy harvesting system, which is able to adapt its
eigenfrequency to the operating conditions of power units. The power required for frequency …

Featured Application The results of the present work can be used to develop vibration
energy harvesters supplying wireless sensor nodes. This is feasible since the order of …