This paper reviews energy harvesting technology from mechanical vibration. Recent
advances on ultralow power portable electronic devices and wireless sensor network …

This paper presents the development of a novel piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) to
harness the great amount of energy wasted by the vehicles on public roadways was …

Advances in electronic and consumer technology are increasing the need for smaller, more
efficient energy sources. Thus vibration-based energy harvesting, the scavenging of energy …

The process of acquiring the energy surrounding a system and converting it into usable
electrical energy is termed power harvesting. In the last few years, the field of power …

Power and bandwidth of piezoelectric harvesters can be increased by using multiple
piezoelectric elements in one harvester. In this contribution, a novel energy harvesting …

In the few decades, the study of electro-mechanical systems which are capable to extract
energy from an operating system in the environment has been of most importance. In this …

This paper proposes an optimization method for the rectifier circuit of a vibration energy
harvesting system that uses macro-fiber composite (MFC) piezoelectric elements. MFC …

Energy harvesting technologies have drawn much attention as an alternative power source
of roadway accessories in different scales. Piezoelectric energy harvesting consisting of PZT …

In the last decade, the sensing technology and the concern of the robustness of the
roadways have significantly grown. The limit of power source has become an impediment …

This paper deals with a recently proposed device for energy harvesting from environmental
vibrations, employing a magnetostrictive material. Even if most of the modeling efforts were …