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 …

High-performance piezoelectric energy harvesters and their applications

Z Yang, S Zhou, J Zu, D Inman - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Energy harvesting holds great potential to achieve long-lifespan self-powered operations of
wireless sensor networks, wearable devices, and medical implants, and thus has attracted …

Scavenging energy from ultra-low frequency mechanical excitations through a bi-directional hybrid energy harvester

K Fan, S Liu, H Liu, Y Zhu, W Wang, D Zhang - Applied Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
A bi-directional hybrid energy harvester (HEH) is presented in this paper to scavenge
energy from ultra-low frequency mechanical excitations. The proposed HEH consists of two …

A review of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting with magnetic coupling based on different structural characteristics

J Jiang, S Liu, L Feng, D Zhao - Micromachines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting technologies have attracted a lot of attention in
recent decades, and the harvesters have been applied successfully in various fields, such …

Improved energy harvesting from low-frequency small vibrations through a monostable piezoelectric energy harvester

K Fan, Q Tan, H Liu, Y Zhang, M Cai - Mechanical Systems and Signal …, 2019 - Elsevier
Scavenging energy from low-frequency and low-level excitations has always been a huge
challenge for the piezoelectric energy harvesting since the frequencies of ambient …

Dynamics of symmetric and asymmetric potential well-based piezoelectric harvesters: A comprehensive review

AM Giri, SF Ali, A Arockiarajan - Journal of Intelligent …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Small and micro-scale energy harvesting is an essential and viable option for the powering
of portable and maintenance free electronic devices, wireless sensor nodes, and similar …

Switching delay in self-powered nonlinear piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting circuit: mechanisms, effects, and solutions

Z Chen, J He, J Liu, Y Xiong - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting (PVEH) has been proved to be much promising in
making low power electronics completely self-powered due to wide availability and high …

Rotational energy harvesting systems using piezoelectric materials: A review

Z Wang, L He, X Gu, S Yang, S Wang… - Review of Scientific …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
In the past few decades, rotary energy harvesting has received more and more attention and
made great progress. The energy harvesting device aims to collect environmental energy …

Hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic energy harvester for scavenging energy from low-frequency excitations

K Fan, Q Tan, H Liu, Y Zhu, W Wang… - Smart Materials and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Capturing mechanical energy from our living environment is an effective approach for
implementing self-sustained electronics. One of the key challenges is how to generate more …

1-mW vibration energy harvester based on a cantilever with printed polymer multilayers

N Godard, L Allirol, A Latour, S Glinsek… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2020 - cell.com
Energy harvesters are required for autonomous sensors. The field is still missing a low-cost
technology that would provide enough power for tangible low-frequency use cases …