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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A parametric resonator for vibration energy harvesting is presented. Despite large
responses from parametric resonance, two major drawbacks of parametric resonance …

It is shown that the energy harvesting capabilities of a piezoelectric cantilever can be
enhanced through coupling to a static magnetic field. A permanent magnet is fixed to the …

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 …

A fundamental drawback of vibration-based energy harvesters is that they typically feature a
resonant mass/spring mechanical system to amplify the small source vibrations; the limited …

Piezoelectric cantilevers are widely used in vibration energy harvesting. Simple cantilever-
based harvesters are mostly unidirectional. In this article, we develop a cantilever-pendulum …

This paper presents a novel electrically tunable structure which can be used as a resonator
for vibration-based energy harvesters. The adjustment of the resonance frequency is …