Stretchable piezoelectric energy harvesters and self-powered sensors for wearable and implantable devices

H Zhou, Y Zhang, Y Qiu, H Wu, W Qin, Y Liao… - Biosensors and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Wearable and implantable bio-integrated electronics have started to gain momentum
because of their essential role in improving the quality of life for various patients and healthy …

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 …

Linear and nonlinear dynamics of micro and nano-resonators: Review of recent advances

AZ Hajjaj, N Jaber, S Ilyas, FK Alfosail… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems M/NEMS have been extensively investigated
and exploited in the past few decades for various applications and for probing fundamental …

Internal resonance vibration-based energy harvesting

LQ Chen, Y Fan - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Taking advantage of undesirable ambient vibration resources, vibration-based energy
harvesters (VEHs) aim to power smart electronic devices by converting kinetic energy into …

A hybrid nonlinear vibration energy harvester

W Yang, S Towfighian - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2017 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting converts mechanical energy from ambient sources to electricity
to power remote sensors. Compared to linear resonators that have poor performance away …

Enhancing ability of harvesting energy from random vibration by decreasing the potential barrier of bistable harvester

C Lan, W Qin - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2017 - Elsevier
When a bistable energy harvester (BEH) is driven by weak random excitation, its harvesting
efficiency will decrease due to the seldom occurrence of interwell motion. To overcome this …

Internal resonance and low frequency vibration energy harvesting

W Yang, S Towfighian - Smart Materials and Structures, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A nonlinear vibration energy harvester with internal resonance is presented. The proposed
harvester consists of two cantilevers, each with a permanent magnet on its tip. One …

Internal resonance characteristics of a bistable electromagnetic energy harvester for performance enhancement

J Zhang, Y Zhi, K Yang, N Hu, Y Peng… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores the internal resonance characteristics of a bistable electromagnetic
vibration energy harvester (BEEH) and utilizes the feature to achieve energy harvesting …

Internal resonance with commensurability induced by an auxiliary oscillator for broadband energy harvesting

L **ong, L Tang, BR Mace - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
An internal resonance based broadband vibration energy harvester is proposed by
introducing an auxiliary oscillator to the main nonlinear harvesting oscillator. Compared to …

Energy harvesting of a fluid-conveying piezoelectric pipe

ZQ Lu, J Chen, H Ding, LQ Chen - Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper reports on an investigation of nonlinear energy harvesting from fluid-conveying
piezoelectric pipes for self-powered sensing. Based on Euler Bernoulli theory, a distributed …