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 …

[HTML][HTML] A review on vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvesting from the aspect of compliant mechanisms

H Liang, G Hao, OZ Olszewski - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2021 - Elsevier
Piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) promote the construction of a smarter world through
powering electric devices with energy scavenged from environmental vibrations by means of …

Ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting: Mechanisms, enhancement techniques, and scaling laws

R Sun, S Zhou, L Cheng - Energy Conversion and Management, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing demand for clean and sustainable energy, self-powered technologies
based on environmental vibrations have attracted a lot of attention recently. Natural vibration …

A piezoelectric spring pendulum oscillator used for multi-directional and ultra-low frequency vibration energy harvesting

Y Wu, J Qiu, S Zhou, H Ji, Y Chen, S Li - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Low frequency vibration is a ubiquitous energy existing in our environment, but a large
efficient harvesting of which remains challenging. This paper presents a simple piezoelectric …

Investigation of an ultra-low frequency piezoelectric energy harvester with high frequency up-conversion factor caused by internal resonance mechanism

Y Wu, S Li, K Fan, H Ji, J Qiu - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2022 - Elsevier
The collection of ultra-low frequency mechanical energy that distributed in ambient
environments remains challenging so far. This paper presents a frequency up-converting …

State-of-the-art in vibration-based electrostatic energy harvesting

FU Khan, MU Qadir - Journal of Micromechanics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, embedded systems and wireless sensor nodes have been gaining importance.
For operating these devices several vibration-based energy harvesters have been …

Rotational electromagnetic energy harvester for human motion application at low frequency

Y Zhang, A Luo, Y Wang, X Dai, Y Lu… - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
A rotational electromagnetic energy harvester is designed to collect the mechanical energy
of human motion at a low frequency. Linear motion can be converted to high speed rotation …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-low wide bandwidth vibrational energy harvesting using a statically balanced compliant mechanism

H Liang, G Hao, OZ Olszewski, V Pakrashi - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Structure design of ultra-low wide bandwidth vibrational energy harvesters remains
an open issue. In this research, a statically balanced compliant mechanism (SBCM) is …

Vibration energy harvester with double frequency-up conversion mechanism for self-powered sensing system in smart city

A Luo, W Xu, J Sun, K Xi, S Tang, X Guo, C Lee… - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper has proposed a vibration energy harvester (VEH) with double frequency-up
conversion (FUC) mechanism which can be applied to harvest energy from vibrations at …

An ultra-low-frequency, broadband and multi-stable tri-hybrid energy harvester for enabling the next-generation sustainable power

C Wang, SK Lai, JM Wang, JJ Feng, YQ Ni - Applied Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This work presents a highly miniaturized, ultra-low-frequency, multi-stable and tri-hybrid
portable energy harvester to harness structural and biomechanical vibration energy …