Low frequency piezoelectric energy harvesting at multi vibration mode shapes

M Rezaeisaray, M El Gowini, D Sameoto… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2015 - Elsevier
A multi-degree of freedom micro-energy harvester has been designed, fabricated, and
tested and sub 100 Hz natural frequencies have been achieved. This design's resonant …

A comparative study of electrical interfaces for tunable piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting

A Morel, A Brenes, D Gibus, E Lefeuvre… - Smart Materials and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The present work deals with tunable electrical interfaces able to enhance both the harvested
power and bandwidth of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters. The aim of this paper is to …

[HTML][HTML] Energy harvesting from low frequency applications using piezoelectric materials

H Li, C Tian, ZD Deng - Applied physics reviews, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
In an effort to eliminate the replacement of the batteries of electronic devices that are difficult
or impractical to service once deployed, harvesting energy from mechanical vibrations or …

A passive design scheme to increase the rectified power of piezoelectric energy harvesters

S Du, Y Jia, C Zhao, GAJ Amaratunga… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting is becoming a promising solution to power
wireless sensors and portable electronics. While miniaturizing energy harvesting systems …

Harvesting vibration energy using two modal vibrations of a folded piezoelectric device

LJ Gong, QS Pan, W Li, GY Yan, YB Liu… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This letter reports a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester that uses the local lateral
resonant modes of a folded structure to widen the operation frequency band. In addition …

Wideband piezoelectric energy harvester tuned through its electronic interface circuit

A Badel, E Lefeuvre - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reports a novel technique enabling to tune the resonant frequency of linear
inertial piezoelectric energy harvesters through the control strategy of the associated …

A novel design of a map-tuning piezoelectric vibration energy harvester

SC Huang, KA Lin - Smart materials and structures, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, a new design of a self-tuning bimorph PZT beam for maximum vibration energy
harvesting is introduced. As is well known, a PZT beam harvester captures the most energy …

Demonstration of wide bandwidth energy harvesting from vibrations

B Marinkovic, H Koser - Smart Materials and Structures, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We experimentally demonstrate a true wide bandwidth vibration energy harvester based on
piezoelectric transduction. Our device is designed to work specifically off-resonance under …

A closed-loop wide-range tunable mechanical resonator for energy harvesting systems

C Peters, D Maurath, W Schock… - Journal of …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Experimental Duffing oscillator for broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting

G Sebald, H Kuwano, D Guyomar… - Smart materials and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an experimental piezoelectric energy harvester exhibiting strong
mechanical nonlinear behavior. Vibration energy harvesters are usually resonant …