Railways, as one of the most important forms of transportation, have been developed rapidly
throughout the world. Meanwhile, the energy consumption and carbon emissions of railway …

Harvesting energy from the environment has become a very promising technology:
particularly vibration energy harvesting has been widely investigated. Owing to its wide …

Micro-energy harvesting (MEH) is a technology of renewable power generation which is a
key technology for hosting the future low-powered electronic devices for wireless sensor …

This paper is a review and synthetic presentation of existing energy harvesting circuits and
techniques for piezoelectric energy scavengers. We provide a hierarchical presentation …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting enables the development of sustainable, batteryless
medical devices, powered by micro-watts level energy transduction and low-frequency body …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting is considered as an ideal power resource for low-power
consumption gadgets in vibrational environments. The energy extraction efficiency depends …

In order to efficiently extract power from piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters, various
active rectifiers have been proposed in the past decade, which include synchronized switch …

Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting has drawn much interest to power distributed
wireless sensor nodes for Internet of Things (IoT) applications where ambient kinetic energy …

Piezoelectric energy harvesters scavenging energy from the environment have been a
promising solution to satisfy the increasing power demand in wireless sensor nodes. Power …

This article proposes a split-phase flip**-capacitor rectifier (SPFCR) to resolve the hard
tradeoff between the number of capacitors and the energy-extraction efficiency for capacitive …