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 …

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 …

Recent progress on triboelectric nanogenerators for vibration energy harvesting and vibration sensing

A Haroun, M Tarek, M Mosleh, F Ismail - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) is a recent technology that reforms kinetic energy
generation and motion sensing. A TENG comes with variety of structures and mechanisms …

Investigation of multimodal electret-based MEMS energy harvester with impact-induced nonlinearity

K Tao, L Tang, J Wu, SW Lye… - Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an electret-based MEMS energy harvester synergizing the advantages
of multi-modal structure and impact mechanism for broad operating bandwidth. The device …

State-of-the-art in vibration-based electrostatic energy harvesting

FU Khan, MU Qadir - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, embedded systems and wireless sensor nodes have been gaining importance.
For operating these devices several vibration-based energy harvesters have been …

Energy harvesting from fluid flow using piezoelectrics: A critical review

M Hamlehdar, A Kasaeian, MR Safaei - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The ambient energy as an available and harvestable energy source which has a high
potential to generate electricity for powering electronics devices. Piezoelectric materials, as …

Employing a MEMS plasma switch for conditioning high-voltage kinetic energy harvesters

H Zhang, F Marty, X **a, Y Zi, T Bourouina… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Triboelectric nanogenerators have attracted wide attention due to their promising
capabilities of scavenging the ambient environmental mechanical energy. However, efficient …

Broadband energy harvesting using acoustic black hole structural tailoring

L Zhao, SC Conlon, F Semperlotti - Smart materials and …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper explores the concept of an acoustic black hole (ABH) as a main design
framework for performing dynamic structural tailoring of mechanical systems for vibration …

A review on 3D printed piezoelectric energy harvesters: materials, 3D printing techniques, and applications

A Megdich, M Habibi, L Laperrière - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
The worldwide energy and environmental pollution crisis is caused partly by the rising
usage of non-renewable energy sources. Researchers try to find alternative energy systems …

MEMS vibrational energy harvesters

H Toshiyoshi, S Ju, H Honma, CH Ji… - Science and technology …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we look into the fundamental mechanism to retrieve the power from physical
vibrations by using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) energy harvesters. An …