Progress in micro/nano sensors and nanoenergy for future AIoT-based smart home applications

A Haroun, X Le, S Gao, B Dong, T He, Z Zhang… - Nano …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-sustainable sensing systems composed of micro/nano sensors and nano-energy
harvesters contribute significantly to developing the internet of things (IoT) systems. As one …

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 …

A rotational pendulum based electromagnetic/triboelectric hybrid-generator for ultra-low-frequency vibrations aiming at human motion and blue energy applications

C Hou, T Chen, Y Li, M Huang, Q Shi, H Liu, L Sun… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
There is abundance of low-frequency biomechanical and blue energy that can be harvested
from our ambient environment. Utilization of these energy plays a significant role for the …

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 …

A non-resonant rotational electromagnetic energy harvester for low-frequency and irregular human motion

H Liu, C Hou, J Lin, Y Li, Q Shi, T Chen, L Sun… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
There is an abundance of low-frequency and irregular human motion energy that can be
harvested. In this work, a non-resonant rotational electromagnetic energy harvester (REH) …

A hybrid nonlinear vibration energy harvester

W Yang, S Towfighian - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2017 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting converts mechanical energy from ambient sources to electricity
to power remote sensors. Compared to linear resonators that have poor performance away …

Fatigue in piezoelectric ceramic vibrational energy harvesting: A review

R Salazar, M Serrano, A Abdelkefi - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric energy harvesters have been thoroughly investigated from a material or
mechanical application viewpoint. The need to understand the potential lifespan of these …

Broadband energy harvester using non-linear polymer spring and electromagnetic/triboelectric hybrid mechanism

RK Gupta, Q Shi, L Dhakar, T Wang, CH Heng… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Over the years, several approaches have been devised to widen the operating bandwidth,
but most of them can only be triggered at high accelerations. In this work, we investigate a …

Internet of things (IoT); internet of everything (IoE); tactile internet; 5G–A (not so evanescent) unifying vision empowered by EH-MEMS (energy harvesting MEMS) and …

J Iannacci - Sensors and actuators a: physical, 2018 - Elsevier
This work aims to build inclusive vision of the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Everything
(IoE), Tactile Internet and 5G, leveraging on MEMS technology, with focus on Energy …

[HTML][HTML] Microsystem based Energy Harvesting (EH-MEMS): Powering pervasivity of the Internet of Things (IoT)–A review with focus on mechanical vibrations

J Iannacci - Journal of King Saud University-Science, 2019 - Elsevier
The paradigm of the Internet of Things (IoT) appears to be the common denominator of all
distributed sensing applications, providing connectivity, interoperability and communication …