Power generation for wearable systems

M Gao, P Wang, L Jiang, B Wang, Y Yao… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Wearable devices are drawing increasing attention in both academia and industry in that
they can offer unprecedented information related to human health in real-time and human …

Hybrid nanogenerators for ocean energy harvesting: mechanisms, designs, and applications

S Panda, S Hajra, Y Oh, W Oh, J Lee, H Shin… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The ocean holds vast potential as a renewable energy source, but harnessing its power has
been challenging due to low‐frequency and high‐amplitude stimulation. However, hybrid …

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 …

Micropower energy harvesting

RJM Vullers, R van Schaijk, I Doms, C Van Hoof… - Solid-State …, 2009 - Elsevier
More than a decade of research in the field of thermal, motion, vibration and electromagnetic
radiation energy harvesting has yielded increasing power output and smaller embodiments …

Piezoelectric MEMS energy harvester for low-frequency vibrations with wideband operation range and steadily increased output power

H Liu, CJ Tay, C Quan, T Kobayashi… - Journal of …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A piezoelectric MEMS energy harvester (EH) with low resonant frequency and wide
operation bandwidth was designed, microfabricated, and characterized. The MEMS …

Investigations of a nonlinear energy harvester with a bistable potential well

BP Mann, BA Owens - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper investigates a nonlinear energy harvester that uses magnetic interactions to
create an inertial generator with a bistable potential well. The motivating hypothesis for this …

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 …

A micro inertial energy harvesting platform with self-supplied power management circuit for autonomous wireless sensor nodes

EE Aktakka, K Najafi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 0.25 cm 3 autonomous energy harvesting micro-platform is realized to efficiently
scavenge, rectify and store ambient vibration energy with batteryless cold start-up and zero …

A coupled piezoelectric–electromagnetic energy harvesting technique for achieving increased power output through damping matching

VR Challa, MG Prasad, FT Fisher - Smart materials and …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Vibration energy harvesting is being pursued as a means to power wireless sensors and
ultra-low power autonomous devices. From a design standpoint, matching the electrical …