Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters

L Liu, X Guo, C Lee - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Along with the arrival of the 5G era, sustainable and renewable energy supplies have
become urgent demands towards plentifully distributed devices utilized for constructing …

A comprehensive review on piezoelectric energy harvesting technology: Materials, mechanisms, and applications

H Liu, J Zhong, C Lee, SW Lee, L Lin - Applied physics reviews, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Development trends and perspectives of future sensors and MEMS/NEMS

J Zhu, X Liu, Q Shi, T He, Z Sun, X Guo, W Liu… - Micromachines, 2019 - mdpi.com
With the fast development of the fifth-generation cellular network technology (5G), the future
sensors and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)/nanoelectromechanical systems …

Progress in TENG technology—A journey from energy harvesting to nanoenergy and nanosystem

J Zhu, M Zhu, Q Shi, F Wen, L Liu, B Dong, A Haroun… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) technology is a promising research field for energy
harvesting and nanoenergy and nanosystem (NENS) in the aspect of mechanical, electrical …

Micro electrostatic energy harvester with both broad bandwidth and high normalized power density

Y Zhang, T Wang, A Luo, Y Hu, X Li, F Wang - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, an electrostatic vibration energy harvester is proposed and fabricated with both
broad bandwidth and high normalized power density (NPD, harvested power/volume …

Piezoelectric MEMS—Evolution from sensing technology to diversified applications in the 5G/Internet of Things (IoT) era

X Le, Q Shi, P Vachon, EJ Ng… - Journal of Micromechanics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The rapid development of the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G) and Internet of Things
(IoT) is inseparable from a large number of miniature, low-cost, and low-power sensors and …

Locomotion of miniature soft robots

CSX Ng, MWM Tan, C Xu, Z Yang, PS Lee… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Miniature soft robots are mobile devices, which are made of smart materials that can be
actuated by external stimuli to realize their desired functionalities. Here, the key …

Recent progress in silicon‐based photonic integrated circuits and emerging applications

Z **ao, W Liu, S Xu, J Zhou, Z Ren… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, with the further ministration of the semiconductor device in integrated
circuits, power consumption and data transmission bandwidth have become insurmountable …

More than energy harvesting in electret electronics‐moving toward next‐generation functional system

J Zhu, Y Yang, H Zhang, Z Zhao… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Electrets are normally applied for energy conversion from mechanical vibration sources in
the environment to electrical power without any friction, which induces electric device …

Progress of advanced devices and internet of things systems as enabling technologies for smart homes and health care

Q Shi, Y Yang, Z Sun, C Lee - ACS Materials Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, various devices (eg., sensors, actuators, energy
harvesters, etc.) and systems have been developed toward the realization of smart …