A review on mechanisms for piezoelectric-based energy harvesters

H Elahi, M Eugeni, P Gaudenzi - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
From last few decades, piezoelectric materials have played a vital role as a mechanism of
energy harvesting, as they have the tendency to absorb energy from the environment and …

A review on energy harvesting approaches for renewable energies from ambient vibrations and acoustic waves using piezoelectricity

R Ahmed, F Mir, S Banerjee - Smart Materials and Structures, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The principal objective of this article is to categorically review and compare the state of the
art vibration based energy harvesting approaches. To evaluate the contemporary …

Comparison of MEMS PZT Cantilevers Based on and Modes for Vibration Energy Harvesting

SB Kim, H Park, SH Kim, HC Wikle… - Journal of …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
d 31 and d 33 mode microelectromechanical systems piezoelectric energy harvesters
(PEHs) were fabricated and compared to investigate their output powers converted from …

Piezoelectric energy harvesting from flow-induced vibration

DA Wang, HH Ko - Journal of micromechanics and …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
A new piezoelectric energy harvester for harnessing energy from flow-induced vibration is
developed. It converts flow energy into electrical energy by piezoelectric conversion with …

Analytical modeling and experimental verification of the vibrations of the zigzag microstructure for energy harvesting

MA Karami, DJ Inman - 2011 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
This paper addresses an issue in energy harvesting that has plagued the potential use of
harvesting through the piezoelectric effect at the micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) …

A shear mode piezoelectric energy harvester based on a pressurized water flow

DA Wang, NZ Liu - Sensors and actuators A: Physical, 2011 - Elsevier
A shear mode piezoelectric energy harvester for harnessing energy from pressurized water
flow is developed. It converts flow energy into electrical energy by piezoelectric conversion …

Improving the performance of a piezoelectric energy harvester using a variable thickness beam

S Paquin, Y St-Amant - Smart Materials and Structures, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years, researchers have shown a growing interest in the possibility of harvesting
mechanical energy from vibrating structures. A common way to proceed consists of using the …

The realization and performance of vibration energy harvesting MEMS devices based on an epitaxial piezoelectric thin film

D Isarakorn, D Briand, P Janphuang… - Smart Materials and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper focuses on the fabrication and evaluation of vibration energy harvesting devices
by utilizing an epitaxial Pb (Zr 0.2 Ti 0.8) O 3 (PZT) thin film. The high quality of the c-axis …

Electromechanical modeling of the low-frequency zigzag micro-energy harvester

MA Karami, DJ Inman - Journal of Intelligent Material …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
An analytical electromechanical model is proposed to predict the deflection, voltage, and the
power output of a proposed low-frequency micro-harvesting structure. The high natural …

A gullwing-structured piezoelectric rotational energy harvester for low frequency energy scavenging

B Yang, Z Yi, G Tang, J Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
A gullwing-structural piezoelectric energy harvester mainly consisting of two typical
nonlinear buckled-bridges is proposed to effectively scavenge low-frequency rotational …