This review covers energy harvesting technologies associated with pyroelectric materials
and systems. Such materials have the potential to generate electrical power from thermal …

Technology advances have enabled modification of the size and shape of the electronic
components to the microscale, with commensurate scaling down of their power …

This book provides the basis for engineering a new, alternative form of technology, ie,
magnetocaloric energy conversion. It has been written for postgraduate students, engineers …

Low-grade waste energy is widely available in industrial processes, and it typically appears
in the form of thermal fluids. Types of technologies are developed for harvesting the thermal …

This paper provides an overview of energy harvesting using ferroelectric materials, with a
particular focus on the energy harvesting capabilities of porous ferroelectric ceramics for …

By coupling pyroelectric effect and photoelectric effect, pyro-phototronic effect is proposed to
effectively modulate photon response characteristics of the detector with pn junction. Here …

Energy harvesting via pyroelectric nanogenerators (PNGs) is emerging as an attractive way
to utilize waste heat. However, most of current PNGs need mechanical or electrical …

In an effort to harvest thermal energy and exploit abundantly available waste heat the
pyroelectric effect offers the opportunity to convert temperature fluctuations into useable …

The low-grade waste heat, which constitutes majority of the total waste heat produced in
industrial sector, is very difficult to be recovered. Pyroelectric materials have recently …

This paper reports a new figure of merit for the selection of pyroelectric materials for thermal
energy harvesting applications, for example, when the material is exposed to heat or …