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 …

Bistable structures for advanced functional systems

Y Cao, M Derakhshani, Y Fang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bistable mechanical systems having two local minima of potential energy can rest in either
of the two stable equilibrium states in the absence of external loadings. A snap‐through …

Ambient vibration energy harvesters: A review on nonlinear techniques for performance enhancement

N Tran, MH Ghayesh, M Arjomandi - International Journal of Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Vibration energy harvesters are emerging as a promising solution for powering small-scale
electronics, such as sensors and monitoring devices, especially in applications where …

On the role of nonlinearities in vibratory energy harvesting: a critical review and discussion

MF Daqaq, R Masana, A Erturk… - Applied …, 2014 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The last two decades have witnessed several advances in microfabrication technologies
and electronics, leading to the development of small, low-power devices for wireless …

A review of the recent research on vibration energy harvesting via bistable systems

RL Harne, KW Wang - Smart materials and structures, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
The investigation of the conversion of vibrational energy into electrical power has become a
major field of research. In recent years, bistable energy harvesting devices have attracted …

Design, development, and theoretical and experimental tests of a nonlinear energy harvester via piezoelectric arrays and motion limiters

Y Fan, MH Ghayesh, TF Lu, M Amabili - International Journal of Non-Linear …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper presents the design, development and test of a nonlinear piezoelectric energy
harvesting array with wideband performance under directly and parametrically excited …

Enhancing ability of harvesting energy from random vibration by decreasing the potential barrier of bistable harvester

C Lan, W Qin - Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, 2017 - Elsevier
When a bistable energy harvester (BEH) is driven by weak random excitation, its harvesting
efficiency will decrease due to the seldom occurrence of interwell motion. To overcome this …

Harmonic balance analysis of nonlinear tristable energy harvesters for performance enhancement

S Zhou, J Cao, DJ Inman, J Lin, D Li - Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2016 - Elsevier
Nonlinear energy harvesters are very sensitive to ambient vibrations. If the excitation level is
too low, their large-amplitude oscillations for high-energy voltage output cannot be obtained …

Is wave energy untapped potential?

AT Gonzalez, P Dunning, I Howard, K McKee… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increase of energy demand in the past 50 years and the targets to reach net-zero
carbon dioxide emissions have led to an increase of electricity production from renewable …

Theoretical and experimental investigation of a quad-stable piezoelectric energy harvester using a locally demagnetized multi-pole magnet

X Su, Y Leng, S Sun, X Chen, J Xu - Energy Conversion and Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Existing research on piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) has mainly relied on uniformly
magnetized permanent magnets (PMs) to provide nonlinearity. Recently, it was reported that …