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 …

MEMS vibrational energy harvesters

H Toshiyoshi, S Ju, H Honma, CH Ji… - Science and technology …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, we look into the fundamental mechanism to retrieve the power from physical
vibrations by using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) energy harvesters. An …

Origami-inspired electret-based triboelectric generator for biomechanical and ocean wave energy harvesting

K Tao, H Yi, Y Yang, H Chang, J Wu, L Tang, Z Yang… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
One of the critical issues for the conventional TENGs for applications in biomechanical and
blue energy harvesting is to develop adaptive, simple-structured, high performance but low …

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 …

Investigation of multimodal electret-based MEMS energy harvester with impact-induced nonlinearity

K Tao, L Tang, J Wu, SW Lye… - Journal of …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an electret-based MEMS energy harvester synergizing the advantages
of multi-modal structure and impact mechanism for broad operating bandwidth. The device …

A comprehensive study of non-linear air damping and “pull-in” effects on the electrostatic energy harvesters

X Guo, Y Zhang, K Fan, C Lee, F Wang - Energy conversion and …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new comprehensive model is presented to optimize the design of vibration
based electrostatic energy harvester working in standard atmosphere. This model considers …

A tunable frequency up-conversion wideband piezoelectric vibration energy harvester for low-frequency variable environment using a novel impact-and rope-driven …

J Zhang, L Qin - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a tunable frequency up-conversion wideband piezoelectric vibration
energy harvester using a novel impact-and rope-driven hybrid mechanism, in which a high …

Theoretical, numerical, and experimental studies of a frequency up-conversion piezoelectric energy harvester

Z Li, X Peng, G Hu, Y Peng - International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the study of a two-degree-of-freedom (2DoF) stacked piezoelectric
energy harvester (SPEH). The high performance of the 2DoF SPEH is achieved by the …

Recent progress on mechanical optimization of MEMS electret-based electrostatic vibration energy harvesters

M Li, A Luo, W Luo, F Wang - Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, self-powered energy harvesting technology has been widely studied, which
may provide supplementary power for wireless sensing networks with low power …

Fatigue in piezoelectric ceramic vibrational energy harvesting: A review

R Salazar, M Serrano, A Abdelkefi - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric energy harvesters have been thoroughly investigated from a material or
mechanical application viewpoint. The need to understand the potential lifespan of these …