Energy harvesting holds great potential to achieve long-lifespan self-powered operations of
wireless sensor networks, wearable devices, and medical implants, and thus has attracted …

Recently, embedded systems and wireless sensor nodes have been gaining importance.
For operating these devices several vibration-based energy harvesters have been …

Energy harvesting from rotational motion, such as vehicle tires and rotational devices,
remains a challenge because of the difficulty of balancing the harvesting frequency range …

Energy harvesting is a method by which energy naturally present in the environment is
captured and then converted into electricity for use in low‐power electronics. Among the …

Advances in micro-electronics and miniaturized mechanical systems are redefining the
scope and extent of the energy constraints found in battery-operated wireless sensor …

This paper presents a novel silicon-based and batch-processed MEMS electrostatic
transducer for harvesting and converting the energy of vibrations into electrical energy …

Tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) are becoming increasingly important to ensure
safe and efficient use of tires in the automotive sector. A typical TPMS system consists of a …

This paper investigates an electrostatic vibration energy harvester that displays rich
nonlinear behavior including jumps during frequency sweeps and broadening of the …

This paper presents the fabrication, characterization and modeling of a wideband MEMS
electrostatic energy harvester utilizing nonlinear springs. The experimental results show that …

Simple analytical models have proved very useful in understanding vibration energy
harvesters driven by a sinusoidal acceleration. Corresponding analyses for broadband …