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 …

The last two decades have witnessed several advances in microfabrication technologies
and electronics, leading to the development of small, low-power devices for wireless …

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 …

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 …

Different from linear energy harvesters, nonlinear energy harvesters have multi-solution
phenomena and nonlinear characteristics, some of which are beneficial for high …

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 …

This paper presents a piezoelectric–electromagnetic hybrid flutter-based energy harvester
(HFEH), where the piezoelectric part and electromagnetic part are coupled with each other …

This paper presents an experimental piezoelectric energy harvester exhibiting strong
mechanical nonlinear behavior. Vibration energy harvesters are usually resonant …

Bistable piezoelectric energy harvesters are being increasingly seen as an alternative to
batteries in low-power devices. However, their energy harvesting characteristics are limited …

In this paper, aim at improving the performance of bi-stable energy harvester (BEH), we
proposed a flexible bi-stable energy harvester (FBEH). The FBEH is composed of two elastic …