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 …

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 …

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 …

A review on performance enhancement techniques for ambient vibration energy harvesters

T Yildirim, MH Ghayesh, W Li, G Alici - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Due to increased demands for energy and the current limitations of batteries, a future
prospective technology are vibration energy harvesters that convert kinetic vibration energy …

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 …

Broadband vibrational energy harvesting based on a triboelectric nanogenerator

J Yang, J Chen, Y Yang, H Zhang… - Advanced Energy …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Vibrations in living environments are generally distributed over a wide frequency spectrum
and exhibit multiple motion directions over time, which renders most of the current vibration …

A methodology for low-speed broadband rotational energy harvesting using piezoelectric transduction and frequency up-conversion

H Fu, EM Yeatman - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from vibration for low-power electronics has been investigated intensively
in recent years, but rotational energy harvesting is less investigated and still has some …

Internal resonance energy harvesting

LQ Chen, WA Jiang - Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2015 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
Internal resonance is explored as a possible mechanism to enhance vibration-based energy
harvesting. An electromagnetic device with snap-through nonlinearity is proposed as an …

Influence of potential well depth on nonlinear tristable energy harvesting

J Cao, S Zhou, W Wang, J Lin - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Numerical and experimental investigation into the influence of potential well depth on
tristable energy harvesting performance is provided. The potential well depth depending on …

Nonlinear time-varying potential bistable energy harvesting from human motion

J Cao, W Wang, S Zhou, DJ Inman, J Lin - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
A theoretical and experimental investigation into nonlinear bistable energy harvesting with
time-varying potential energy is presented. The motivation for examining time-varying …