Daily activities such as walking and running possess abundant amount of energy, which is
usually wasted and have the potential to be harvested. Especially, the energy generated …

As the power required to run micro-electronics circuitry is decreasing these days, an untiring
attempt of the contemporary researchers has been to find new environmental energy …

A footwear harvester needs to fulfill both technical and practical functionalities, including but
not limited to energy extracting and storage, easy implantation and durability. The very …

Portable, wearable, and mobile devices are becoming more and more popular in the past
two decades. Those devices rely on batteries heavily as power source. However, the limited …

This study is mainly to provide an overview of human walking induced energy harvest.
Focusing on the proportion of all energy sources provided by daily activity, the available …

Sustaining the power resource for autonomous wireless and portable electronic devices is
an important issue. Ambient power sources, such as a replacement for batteries, can …

This paper presents a material equivalent model, electromechanical coupling finite element
(FE) modeling and experimental validation of a piezoelectric energy harvester for energy …

In this paper a proposed design of a piezoelectric transducer-based energy harvesting
device has been presented. The primary goal of the research was to develop a device that …

Harvesting mechanical energy from human motion is an attractive approach for obtaining
clean and sustainable electric energy to power wearable sensors, which are widely used for …

Harvesting energy from human motions is a promising solution to the power issue for
wearable electronics. Recently, various energy harvesters were developed to capture the …