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 …
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 …
Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting is becoming a promising solution to power wireless sensors and portable electronics. While miniaturizing energy harvesting systems …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …