Vibration energy harvesting typically involves a mechanical oscillatory mechanism to
accumulate ambient kinetic energy, prior to the conversion to electrical energy through a …

In recent years, self-powered energy harvesting technology has been widely studied, which
may provide supplementary power for wireless sensing networks with low power …

This paper presents an electret-based MEMS energy harvester synergizing the advantages
of multi-modal structure and impact mechanism for broad operating bandwidth. The device …

This paper presents an advanced study including the design, characterization and
theoretical analysis of a capacitive vibration energy harvester. Although based on a …

This article presents a hand-held electromagnetic energy harvester which can be used to
harvest tens of mW power level from human body motion. A magnet array, aligned to a coil …

Harmonic balance analysis of the output characteristics of free-standing mode triboelectric
nanogenerators (FS-TENG) is conducted in this study. Considering the contact-impact force …

This paper presents the fabrication, modeling and characterization of an out-of-plane
electret-based vibrational energy harvester (e-VEH) that has both positive and negative …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting techniques provide a promising way to transform the
vibration energy into electric energy. Since the voltage output peak can drop due to the …

Based on the cantilever beam, this paper proposes and designs a novel electret-based
electrostatic energy harvester (e-EEH) with dual modules: module I is a capacitor of …

Harvesting kinetic energy is a good opportunity to power wireless sensor in a vibratory
environment. Besides classical methods based on electromagnetic and piezoelectric …