Recently, electrical engineers are paying great attention to develop oceanic wave energy
conversion technologies based on the piezoelectric materials because of their excellent …

An expedient piezoelectric coupled buoy energy harvester from ocean waves is developed.
The harvester is made of several piezoelectric coupled cantilevers attached to a floating …

Energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials can be realised by periodic external force.
Piezoelectric material directly converts strain energy into electric power to capture a wasted …

This study proposed a painted flexible piezoelectric device (FPED) for harvesting wave
energy. The painted FPED had a laminated structure consisting of an elastic material and a …

This paper proposes a numerical method for analyzing a thin piezoelectric bimorph in fluid.
A hierarchically decomposed finite element method (FEM) is proposed for modeling the …

Energy harvesting is a topic of global interest in both academic research and practical
application across many fields. The main concept in energy harvesting is to convert wasted …

Thin piezoelectric bimorph cantilever is increasingly employed throughout the field of
actuator and sensor applications in the microelectromechanical system (MEMS). Generally …

Multilevel inverters (MLIs) have offered significant contributions toward the implementation
of energy conversion units used in industry and renewable energy applications. However …

In this paper, an experimental study of wave power generation using flexible piezoelectric
devices (FPEDs) is presented. Two alternate configurations to harvest power from waves are …

This paper addresses limitations to existing analytical models for piezoelectric energy
harvesters. The presented model is targeted at predicting behaviours of highly flexible …