Nonlinear vibration energy harvesting and vibration suppression technologies: Designs, analysis, and applications

T Yang, S Zhou, S Fang, W Qin, DJ Inman - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Limited by the structure, the high-efficiency vibration energy harvesting and vibration
suppression have always been a theoretical bottleneck and technical challenge in this field …

A comprehensive review on piezoelectric energy harvesting technology: Materials, mechanisms, and applications

H Liu, J Zhong, C Lee, SW Lee, L Lin - Applied physics reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a
possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in …

Harvesting ambient wind energy with an inverted piezoelectric flag

S Orrego, K Shoele, A Ruas, K Doran, B Caggiano… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper describes an experimental study of wind energy harvesting by self-sustained
oscillations (flutter) of a flexible piezoelectric membrane fixed in a novel orientation called …

Investigation of frequency-up conversion effect on the performance improvement of stack-based piezoelectric generators

Y Peng, Z Xu, M Wang, Z Li, J Peng, J Luo, S Xie… - Renewable Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper originally investigates the influence of frequency-up conversion effect on
piezoelectric stack generators for high-performance energy harvesting. A compressive …

Ambient vibration energy harvesters: A review on nonlinear techniques for performance enhancement

N Tran, MH Ghayesh, M Arjomandi - International Journal of Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesters are emerging as a promising solution for powering small-scale
electronics, such as sensors and monitoring devices, especially in applications where …

A review on mechanisms for piezoelectric-based energy harvesters

H Elahi, M Eugeni, P Gaudenzi - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
From last few decades, piezoelectric materials have played a vital role as a mechanism of
energy harvesting, as they have the tendency to absorb energy from the environment and …

A multimodal hybrid energy harvester based on piezoelectric-electromagnetic mechanisms for low-frequency ambient vibrations

RM Toyabur, M Salauddin, H Cho, JY Park - Energy conversion and …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, we proposed and experimentally validated a vibration-based multimodal
hybrid piezoelectric–electromagnetic energy harvester having multiple mechanical degrees …

An impact-based broadband aeroelastic energy harvester for concurrent wind and base vibration energy harvesting

L Zhao, Y Yang - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a novel broadband energy harvester to concurrently harvest energy
from base vibrations and wind flows by utilizing a mechanical stopper. A problem for a …

An electromagnetic rotational energy harvester using sprung eccentric rotor, driven by pseudo-walking motion

MA Halim, R Rantz, Q Zhang, L Gu, K Yang, S Roundy - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work, an electromagnetic energy harvesting device using a sprung eccentric rotor has
been designed, optimized and characterized to harvest power from pseudo-walking signals …

Scavenging energy from ultra-low frequency mechanical excitations through a bi-directional hybrid energy harvester

K Fan, S Liu, H Liu, Y Zhu, W Wang, D Zhang - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
A bi-directional hybrid energy harvester (HEH) is presented in this paper to scavenge
energy from ultra-low frequency mechanical excitations. The proposed HEH consists of two …