The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a
possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in …

Recent advances in materials, manufacturing, biotechnology, and microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) have fostered many exciting biosensors and bioactuators that are based …

The bulkiness of traditional batteries, as well as frequent charging and electronic detritus
caused by the replacement of old batteries, hinder the ability of low-powered electronic …

Piezoelectric materials are known to mankind for more than a century, with numerous
advancements made in both scientific understandings and practical applications. In the last …

With the fast development of energy harvesting technology, micro-nano or scale-up energy
harvesters have been proposed to allow sensors or internet of things (IoT) applications with …

Piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (PiezoMEMS) are attractive for develo**
next generation self-powered microsystems. PiezoMEMS promises to eliminate the costly …

Piezoelectricity, the linear relationship between stress and induced electrical charge, has
attracted recent interest due to its manifestation in biological molecules such as synthetic …

Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

In recent decades, micromachined ultrasonic transducers (MUTs) have been investigated as
an alternative to conventional piezocomposite ultrasonic transducers, primarily due to the …

Aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films are widely investigated due to their unique physical
properties and applications in energy harvesting devices, ultrasonic transducers …