Development trends and perspectives of future sensors and MEMS/NEMS

J Zhu, X Liu, Q Shi, T He, Z Sun, X Guo, W Liu… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of the fifth-generation cellular network technology (5G), the future
sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)/nanoelectromechanical systems …

Vibration‐based piezoelectric, electromagnetic, and hybrid energy harvesters for microsystems applications: a contributed review

M Iqbal, MM Nauman, FU Khan… - … journal of energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) and embedded microsystems have recently gained
tremendous traction from researchers due to their vast sensing and monitoring applications …

Investigation of multimodal electret-based MEMS energy harvester with impact-induced nonlinearity

K Tao, L Tang, J Wu, SW Lye… - Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Employing a MEMS plasma switch for conditioning high-voltage kinetic energy harvesters

H Zhang, F Marty, X Xia, Y Zi, T Bourouina… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Triboelectric nanogenerators have attracted wide attention due to their promising
capabilities of scavenging the ambient environmental mechanical energy. However, efficient …

Vibration energy harvester with double frequency-up conversion mechanism for self-powered sensing system in smart city

A Luo, W Xu, J Sun, K Xi, S Tang, X Guo, C Lee… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper has proposed a vibration energy harvester (VEH) with double frequency-up
conversion (FUC) mechanism which can be applied to harvest energy from vibrations at …

[HTML][HTML] Tapered nonlinear vibration energy harvester for powering Internet of Things

K Paul, A Amann, S Roy - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The lack of a sustainable power source to substitute batteries for long-term applications
limits the widespread deployment of wireless sensor nodes in this era of the Internet of …

Understanding and modeling of triboelectric-electret nanogenerator

R Hinchet, A Ghaffarinejad, Y Lu, JY Hasani, SW Kim… - Nano energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, electrostatic kinetic energy harvesters regained strong attention through the
development of new triboelectric generators for harvesting green and renewable energy …

Progressive contact-separate triboelectric nanogenerator based on conductive polyurethane foam regulated with a Bennet doubler conditioning circuit

H Zhang, Y Lu, A Ghaffarinejad, P Basset - Nano energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Scavenging the energy of human motions has attracted widespread attentions with the
development of wearable electronics. This paper for the first time proposed a progressive …

Mechanical energy conversion systems for triboelectric nanogenerators: Kinematic and vibrational designs

W Kim, D Bhatia, S Jeong, D Choi - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) represent a promising next-generation renewable
energy technology. So far, TENGs have been successfully used as highly sensitive and self …

A conditioning circuit with exponential enhancement of output energy for triboelectric nanogenerator

A Ghaffarinejad, JY Hasani, R Hinchet, Y Lu, H Zhang… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Triboelectric-electret nanogenerators (T-ENG) are characterized by their high output voltage
and small current and therefore a relatively low output power, making them limited to small …