Recent developments of acoustic energy harvesting: A review

M Yuan, Z Cao, J Luo, X Chou - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
Acoustic energy is a type of environmental energy source that can be scavenged and
converted into electrical energy for small-scale power applications. In general, incident …

Enhancement of the low-frequency acoustic energy harvesting with auxetic resonators

P Eghbali, D Younesian, S Farhangdoust - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
A new concept to enhance efficiency of the acoustic energy harvesting is presented and
experimentally tested in this paper. An auxetic latticed resonator backed by an acoustic …

Bioinspired PVDF piezoelectric generator for harvesting multi‐frequency sound energy

B Duan, K Wu, X Chen, J Ni, X Ma… - Advanced Electronic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of micro‐energy harvesting technology, noise has great
potential as a new type of micro‐energy source by developing a high‐performance acoustic …

Material equivalence, modeling and experimental validation of a piezoelectric boot energy harvester

F Qian, TB Xu, L Zuo - Smart Materials and Structures, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents a material equivalent model, electromechanical coupling finite element
(FE) modeling and experimental validation of a piezoelectric energy harvester for energy …

Boosting the efficiency of a footstep piezoelectric-stack energy harvester using the synchronized switch technology

H Liu, R Hua, Y Lu, Y Wang… - Journal of intelligent …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
In this article, the self-supported power conditioning circuits are studied for a footstep energy
harvester, which consists of a monolithic multilayer piezoelectric stack with a force …

Wideband energy harvesting based on mixed connection of piezoelectric oscillators

PH Wu, YJ Chen, BY Li, YC Shu - Smart Materials and Structures, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
An approach for wideband energy harvesting together with power enhancement is proposed
by integrating multiple piezoelectric oscillators with mixed parallel-series connection. This …

Helix structure for low frequency acoustic energy harvesting

M Yuan, Z Cao, J Luo, Z Pang - Review of Scientific Instruments, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
In this study, a novel helix acoustic resonator is proposed to realize acoustic energy
harvesting (AEH). Compared with the traditional acoustic resonators, the proposed structure …

A hybrid flow energy harvester using combined piezoelectric and electromagnetic transductions for pipeline network monitoring

WU Rahman, FU Khan - Journal of Intelligent Material …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
An energy harvester that employs both electromagnetic and piezoelectric effects to convert
fluid flow energy in the pipeline into electrical energy for powering wireless sensor nodes …

[HTML][HTML] Vibration energy harvester with low resonant frequency based on flexible coil and liquid spring

Y Wang, Q Zhang, L Zhao, Y Tang, A Shkel… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
This paper reports an electromagnetic vibration-energy harvester with low resonant
frequency based on liquid spring composed of ferrofluid. Cylinder magnet array formed by …

Comparison between overall and respective electrical rectifications in array of piezoelectric energy harvesting

IC Lien, YC Lo, SH Chiu, YC Shu - Journal of Mechanics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The article compares two different electrical rectifications employed by a piezoelectric
harvester array. The first type consists of parallel connection of harvesters followed by an AC …