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

Energy harvesting is the method of extraction of electrical energy from ambient sources. The
sources such as heat, light and vibration possess a great amount of energy to extract. The …

Kinetic energy harvesting has drawn great attention in the past decade, but low-frequency
and broadband operation is still a big issue which impedes this technology to be widely …

Gallo** based piezoelectric energy harvester is a kind of micro-environmental energy
harvesting device based on flow-induced vibrations. A novel tristable gallo**-based …

This article provides the latest advances from the NSF Advanced Self-powered Systems of
Integrated sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) center. The work in the center addresses the …

In the span of past few decades, population, urbanization and industrialization have
transformed the mankind living standard and dynamics of the nature. Certainly, energy is the …

A theoretical and experimental investigation into nonlinear bistable energy harvesting with
time-varying potential energy is presented. The motivation for examining time-varying …

Complex, three-dimensional (3D) mesostructures that incorporate advanced, mechanically
active materials are of broad, growing interest for their potential use in many emerging …

The complex dynamic behavior of nonlinear harvesters make it difficult to identify the
optimum mechanical and electrical parameters for maximum output power, when compared …

We investigated the energy harvesting of a vertical beam with tip mass under vertical
excitations. We applied dynamic unstability and internal resonance to improve the efficiency …