On the role of nonlinearities in vibratory energy harvesting: a critical review and discussion

MF Daqaq, R Masana, A Erturk… - Applied …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The last two decades have witnessed several advances in microfabrication technologies
and electronics, leading to the development of small, low-power devices for wireless …

Recent progress in the energy harvesting technology—from self-powered sensors to self-sustained IoT, and new applications

L Liu, X Guo, W Liu, C Lee - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy
harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with …

Micro electrostatic energy harvester with both broad bandwidth and high normalized power density

Y Zhang, T Wang, A Luo, Y Hu, X Li, F Wang - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, an electrostatic vibration energy harvester is proposed and fabricated with both
broad bandwidth and high normalized power density (NPD, harvested power/volume …

Review of nonlinear vibration energy harvesting: Duffing, bistability, parametric, stochastic and others

Y Jia - Journal of intelligent material systems and structures, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Vibration energy harvesting typically involves a mechanical oscillatory mechanism to
accumulate ambient kinetic energy, prior to the conversion to electrical energy through a …

Investigation of a MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester system with a frequency-widened-bandwidth mechanism introduced by mechanical stoppers

H Liu, C Lee, T Kobayashi, CJ Tay… - Smart materials and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the design, microfabrication, modeling and characterization of a
piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) system with a wide operating bandwidth introduced by …

Technology evolution from micro-scale energy harvesters to nanogenerators

X Guo, L Liu, Z Zhang, S Gao, T He… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the end of the last century, energy harvesting technologies have obtained prominent
development as the sustainable power supplies for billions of wireless sensor nodes …

Internal resonance with commensurability induced by an auxiliary oscillator for broadband energy harvesting

L Xiong, L Tang, BR Mace - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
An internal resonance based broadband vibration energy harvester is proposed by
introducing an auxiliary oscillator to the main nonlinear harvesting oscillator. Compared to …

A new S-shaped MEMS PZT cantilever for energy harvesting from low frequency vibrations below 30 Hz

H Liu, C Lee, T Kobayashi, CJ Tay, C Quan - Microsystem technologies, 2012 - Springer
In this paper, a new S-shaped piezoelectric PZT cantilever is microfabricated for scavenging
vibration energy at low frequencies (< 30 Hz) and low accelerations (< 0.4 g). The maximum …

A multi-frequency vibration-based MEMS electromagnetic energy harvesting device

H Liu, Y Qian, C Lee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2013 - Elsevier
A multi-frequency vibration-based MEMS electromagnetic energy harvesting (EH) device
has been presented, fabricated and characterized in this paper. It consists of a permanent …

Fundamental issues in nonlinear wideband-vibration energy harvesting

E Halvorsen - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2013 - APS
Mechanically nonlinear energy harvesters driven by broadband vibrations modeled as white
noise are investigated. We derive an upper bound on output power versus load resistance …