Wideband auto-tunable vibration energy harvester using change in centre of gravity

R Somkuwar, J Chandwani, R Deshmukh - Microsystem Technologies, 2018 - Springer
Energy harvesters are preferred for enhancing the life of IoT nodes. In this paper, a vibration
energy harvester with wideband auto-tunable resonant frequency for increased output is …

Bandwidth broadening of piezoelectric energy harvesters using arrays of a proposed piezoelectric cantilever structure

MS Salem, S Ahmed, A Shaker, MT Alshammari… - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the most important challenges in the design of the piezoelectric energy harvester is
its narrow bandwidth. Most of the input vibration sources are exposed to frequency variation …

Study on cantilever piezoelectric energy harvester with tunable function

C Lihua, X Jiangtao, P Shiqing… - Smart Materials and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Piezoelectric energy harvesters tend to convert energy from ambient vibration to electricity,
which can gain a higher output voltage at resonance region. How to obtain a larger working …

Widening the bandwidth of vibration energy harvesters using a liquid-based non-uniform load distribution

N Jackson, F Stam, OZ Olszewski, H Doyle… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2016 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesters typically have a narrow bandwidth, which allows them to
generate high amounts of power, but only at a specific frequency. This paper presents a …

Multi-band piezoelectric vibration energy harvester for low-frequency applications

J Chandwani, R Somkuwar, R Deshmukh - Microsystem Technologies, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (PEH) is a promising technology for harvesting
energy from low frequency ambient vibrations. To generate the power from these low …

Wide bandwidth vibration energy harvester with embedded transverse movable mass

N Jackson, LA Rodriguez, R Adhikari - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
One of the biggest challenges associated with vibration energy harvesters is their limited
bandwidth, which reduces their effectiveness when utilized for Internet of Things …

Tuning and widening the bandwidth of vibration energy harvesters using a ferrofluid embedded mass

N Jackson - Microsystem Technologies, 2020 - Springer
Widening the bandwidth and tunability are two of the major challenges associated with
vibrational energy harvesting devices. This paper demonstrates a novel method involving …

Sloshing liquid-metal mass for widening the bandwidth of a vibration energy harvester

N Jackson, F Stam - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2018 - Elsevier
Linear vibrational energy harvesting devices typically have narrow bandwidths, which limits
their practical use, because the resonant frequency needs to match the frequency of the …

Numerical investigation on the coupled vibrations of piezoelectric energy harvester with a liquid-filled proof mass

JX Tao, BX Zheng, XY Xu, TT Tang, P Yu, C Lu - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Replacing the solid tip mass of a piezoelectric cantilever beam with a liquid-filled mass can
increase its frequency bandwidth due to the effect of nonlinear liquid sloshing. To investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency band widening technique for cantilever-based vibration energy harvesters through dynamics of fluid motion

MD Dhone, PG Gawatre, SS Balpande - Materials Science for Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesting has evoked great interests for a wide variety of self-powered
microsystems. Vibration energy harvesters typically have a narrow bandwidth, which causes …