A review of power harvesting using piezoelectric materials (2003–2006)

SR Anton, HA Sodano - Smart materials and Structures, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of power harvesting has experienced significant growth over the past few years
due to the ever-increasing desire to produce portable and wireless electronics with …

A review of nonlinear piezoelectric energy harvesting interface circuits in discrete components

B Zhang, H Liu, S Zhou, J Gao - Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2022 - Springer
Piezoelectric energy harvesting is considered as an ideal power resource for low-power
consumption gadgets in vibrational environments. The energy extraction efficiency depends …

Analysis of power output for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems

YC Shu, IC Lien - Smart materials and structures, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Power harvesting refers to the practice of acquiring energy from the environment which
would be otherwise wasted and converting it into usable electric energy. Much work has …

Non-linear piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting from a vertical cantilever beam with tip mass

MI Friswell, SF Ali, O Bilgen, S Adhikari… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
A common energy harvesting device uses a piezoelectric patch on a cantilever beam with a
tip mass. The usual configuration exploits the linear resonance of the system; this works well …

Review of power conditioning for kinetic energy harvesting systems

GD Szarka, BH Stark, SG Burrow - IEEE transactions on power …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, a summary of published techniques for power conditioning within energy
harvesting systems is presented. The focus is on low-power systems, eg,<; 10 mW, for …

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 …

Design of piezoelectric energy harvesting systems: a topology optimization approach based on multilayer plates and shells

CJ Rupp, A Evgrafov, K Maute… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
We develop a computational approach to analyze and design piezoelectric energy
harvesting systems composed of layered plates and shells connected to an electrical circuit …

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 …

A highly efficient P-SSHI rectifier for piezoelectric energy harvesting

S Lu, F Boussaid - IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A highly efficient P-SSHI-based rectifier for piezoelectric energy harvesting is presented in
this paper. The proposed rectifier utilizes the voltages at the two ends of the piezoelectric …