Rotational energy harvesting for self-powered sensing

H Fu, X Mei, D Yurchenko, S Zhou, S Theodossiades… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
Advances in wireless sensors, biomedical devices, and micro-robotics exert more pressure
on creating reliable, miniaturized, and self-sustained energy supply solutions for these micro …

Energy harvesting research: the road from single source to multisource

Y Bai, H Jantunen, J Juuti - Advanced materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Energy harvesting technology may be considered an ultimate solution to replace batteries
and provide a long‐term power supply for wireless sensor networks. Looking back into its …

Improved energy harvesting from wideband vibrations by nonlinear piezoelectric converters

M Ferrari, V Ferrari, M Guizzetti, B Ando… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2010 - Elsevier
Vibration harvesters typically are linear mass-spring devices working at resonance. A
different approach is here proposed based on nonlinear converters that exploit stochastic …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from broadband random vibrations

S Adhikari, MI Friswell, DJ Inman - Smart materials and structures, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Energy harvesting for the purpose of powering low power electronic sensor systems has
received explosive attention in the last few years. Most works using deterministic …

Magnetopiezoelastic energy harvesting driven by random excitations

G Litak, MI Friswell, S Adhikari - Applied Physics Letters, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
This letter considers a nonlinear piezomagnetoelastic energy harvester driven by stationary
Gaussian white noise. The increase in the energy generated by this device has been …

Experimental and theoretical studies on MEMS piezoelectric vibrational energy harvesters with mass loading

R Andosca, TG McDonald, V Genova… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2012 - Elsevier
Experimental and theoretical investigations on micro-scale multi-morph cantilever
piezoelectric vibrational energy harvesters (PZEHs) of the MicroElectroMechanical Systems …

Nonlinear behavior of an electrostatic energy harvester under wide-and narrowband excitation

LGW Tvedt, DS Nguyen… - Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates an electrostatic vibration energy harvester that displays rich
nonlinear behavior including jumps during frequency sweeps and broadening of the …

Bi-resonant structure with piezoelectric PVDF films for energy harvesting from random vibration sources at low frequency

S Li, A Crovetto, Z Peng, A Zhang, O Hansen… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper reports on a bi-resonant structure of piezoelectric PVDF films energy harvester
(PPEH), which consists of two cantilevers with resonant frequencies of 15 Hz and 22 Hz …

Fabrication and characterization of a wideband MEMS energy harvester utilizing nonlinear springs

DS Nguyen, E Halvorsen, GU Jensen… - … of Micromechanics and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the fabrication, characterization and modeling of a wideband MEMS
electrostatic energy harvester utilizing nonlinear springs. The experimental results show that …

Analysis of energy harvesters for highway bridges

SF Ali, MI Friswell, S Adhikari - Journal of Intelligent Material …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the possibility of piezoelectric energy harvesters as energy
scavenging devices in highway bridges. The structural vibration due to the motion of a load …