A review of flow-induced vibration energy harvesters

X Ma, S Zhou - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of wireless sensor networks, medical equipment, and
microelectromechanical systems, providing clean and self-sustained energy for these …

Mechanical modulations for enhancing energy harvesting: Principles, methods and applications

HX Zou, LC Zhao, QH Gao, L Zuo, FR Liu, T Tan… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Mechanical kinetic energy harvesting, which converts the mechanical motions and
vibrations that are commonly available in the surrounding environment to electrical energy …

Energy harvesting towards self-powered IoT devices

H Elahi, K Munir, M Eugeni, S Atek, P Gaudenzi - Energies, 2020 - mdpi.com
The internet of things (IoT) manages a large infrastructure of web-enabled smart devices,
small devices that use embedded systems, such as processors, sensors, and …

Hybrid wind energy scavenging by coupling vortex-induced vibrations and galloping

J Wang, S Gu, C Zhang, G Hu, G Chen, K Yang… - Energy Conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a hybrid piezoelectric wind energy scavenger with different cross-
sectioned bluff bodies, to enhance the energy scavenging performance by coupling both the …

A double-beam piezo-magneto-elastic wind energy harvester for improving the galloping-based energy harvesting

K Yang, J Wang, D Yurchenko - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
This study investigates the performance of a double-beam piezo-magneto-elastic wind
energy harvester (DBPME-WEH) when exhibiting a galloping-based energy harvesting …

Harvesting ambient wind energy with an inverted piezoelectric flag

S Orrego, K Shoele, A Ruas, K Doran, B Caggiano… - Applied energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The paper describes an experimental study of wind energy harvesting by self-sustained
oscillations (flutter) of a flexible piezoelectric membrane fixed in a novel orientation called …

Aeroelastic energy harvesting: A review

A Abdelkefi - International Journal of Engineering Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting is the process by which light, thermal, solar, and kinetic energy can be
converted to a usable form of energy with the ultimate objective of developing self-powered …

Review on engineering structural designs for efficient piezoelectric energy harvesting to obtain high power output

N Wu, B Bao, Q Wang - Engineering Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, with more electrical devices developed and applied in wide fields, efficient
electrical energy generation is always one of the front-end and practical topics in …

A water-proof magnetically coupled piezoelectric-electromagnetic hybrid wind energy harvester

LC Zhao, HX Zou, G Yan, FR Liu, T Tan, WM Zhang… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Small-scale wind energy harvesting can be a potential way to yield endless electrical energy
for small and micro mechanical systems, which has gained extensive interest from both the …

Topologically protected valley-dependent quantum photonic circuits

Y Chen, XT He, YJ Cheng, HY Qiu, LT Feng… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Topological photonics has been introduced as a powerful platform for integrated optics,
since it can deal with robust light transport, and be further extended to the quantum world …