Multistable vibration energy harvesters: Principle, progress, and perspectives

S Zhou, M Lallart, A Erturk - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting is a process by which ambient mechanical energy from
environment or host structures is converted into usable energy (usually, but not always …

On the role of nonlinearities in vibratory energy harvesting: a critical review and discussion

MF Daqaq, R Masana, A Erturk… - Applied …, 2014‏ - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The last two decades have witnessed several advances in microfabrication technologies
and electronics, leading to the development of small, low-power devices for wireless …

A review of the recent research on vibration energy harvesting via bistable systems

RL Harne, KW Wang - Smart materials and structures, 2013‏ - iopscience.iop.org
The investigation of the conversion of vibrational energy into electrical power has become a
major field of research. In recent years, bistable energy harvesting devices have attracted …

A review on performance enhancement techniques for ambient vibration energy harvesters

T Yildirim, MH Ghayesh, W Li, G Alici - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Due to increased demands for energy and the current limitations of batteries, a future
prospective technology are vibration energy harvesters that convert kinetic vibration energy …

Bio-inspired bistable piezoelectric vibration energy harvester: Design and experimental investigation

J Zhou, X Zhao, K Wang, Y Chang, D Xu, G Wen - Energy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Inspired by the flight mechanism of dipteran, a novel bionic-dipteran energy harvester
(BDEH) was proposed to collect ultralow-frequency vibration energy. Mimicking the skeletal …

Multi-solution phenomena and nonlinear characteristics of tristable gallo** energy harvesters with magnetic coupling nonlinearity

Z Li, S Wang, S Zhou - … in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Different from linear energy harvesters, nonlinear energy harvesters have multi-solution
phenomena and nonlinear characteristics, some of which are beneficial for high …

Experimental Duffing oscillator for broadband piezoelectric energy harvesting

G Sebald, H Kuwano, D Guyomar… - Smart materials and …, 2011‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents an experimental piezoelectric energy harvester exhibiting strong
mechanical nonlinear behavior. Vibration energy harvesters are usually resonant …

A piezoelectric–electromagnetic hybrid flutter-based wind energy harvester: Modeling and nonlinear analysis

Z Li, S Zhou, X Li - International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a piezoelectric–electromagnetic hybrid flutter-based energy harvester
(HFEH), where the piezoelectric part and electromagnetic part are coupled with each other …

Dynamic and energetic characteristics of a bistable piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with an elastic magnifier

G Wang, WH Liao, B Yang, X Wang, W Xu… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Bistable piezoelectric energy harvesters are being increasingly seen as an alternative to
batteries in low-power devices. However, their energy harvesting characteristics are limited …

Characterizing the effective bandwidth of tri-stable energy harvesters

M Panyam, MF Daqaq - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Recently, it has been shown that nonlinear vibratory energy harvesters possessing a tri-
stable potential function are capable of harvesting energy efficiently over a wider range of …