Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

A comprehensive review on vibration based micro power generators using electromagnetic and piezoelectric transducer mechanisms

ARM Siddique, S Mahmud, B Van Heyst - Energy Conversion and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The area of micro power generation has developed significantly over the last two decades in
the field of microelectromechanical systems, self-powered wireless sensor nodes, and …

Capturing energy from ultra-low frequency vibrations and human motion through a monostable electromagnetic energy harvester

K Fan, M Cai, H Liu, Y Zhang - Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
In the energy-harvesting field, one of the key issues is how to realize efficient energy
extraction from ultra-low frequency excitation sources. To offer a solution to this issue, this …

Energizing wireless sensor networks by energy harvesting systems: Scopes, challenges and approaches

ASMZ Kausar, AW Reza, MU Saleh… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2014 - Elsevier
As the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology has great advancement, small and
smart WSN systems now can be used for more complicated and challenging applications …

A nonlinear two-degree-of-freedom electromagnetic energy harvester for ultra-low frequency vibrations and human body motions

K Fan, Y Zhang, H Liu, M Cai, Q Tan - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Converting the ambient waste energy into electricity has been considered as an effective
approach for sustaining low-power devices. One of the key issues is how to generate more …

Multi-modal vibration energy harvesting approach based on nonlinear oscillator arrays under magnetic levitation

I Abed, N Kacem, N Bouhaddi… - Smart Materials and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a multi-modal vibration energy harvesting approach based on arrays of coupled
levitated magnets. The equations of motion which include the magnetic nonlinearity and the …

Single-layer graphene-based transparent and flexible multifunctional electronics for self-charging power and touch-sensing systems

S Chun, W Son, G Lee, SH Kim, JW Park… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Applications in the field of portable and wearable electronics are becoming multifunctional,
and the achievement of transparent electronics extensively expands the applications into …

On-site and external energy harvesting in underground wireless

U Raza, A Salam - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Energy efficiency is vital for uninterrupted long-term operation of wireless underground
communication nodes in the field of decision agriculture. In this paper, energy harvesting …

A magnetically coupled electromagnetic energy harvester with low operating frequency for human body kinetic energy

X Li, J Meng, C Yang, H Zhang, L Zhang, R Song - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
In this paper, a magnetically coupled electromagnetic energy harvester (MCEEH) is
proposed for harvesting human body kinetic energy. The proposed MCEEH mainly consists …

High power density levitation-induced vibration energy harvester

DJ Apo, S Priya - Energy Harvesting and Systems, 2014 - degruyter.com
We report a levitation-induced vibration energy harvester based on a double-repulsion
configuration in the moving magnet composite. Computational modeling clearly illustrated …