Metamaterials and phononic crystals (PCs) with artificially designed periodic microstructures
have attracted increasing research interests due to their unique properties that cannot be …

This paper is a review and synthetic presentation of existing energy harvesting circuits and
techniques for piezoelectric energy scavengers. We provide a hierarchical presentation …

This paper proposes a comb-like beam (CombBeam) based piezoelectric energy harvester
(PEH) for harvesting wind energy by exploiting the galloping mechanism. The CombBeam …

The abundant mechanical energy distributed in ambient environments features ultra-low
frequency. Implementation of self-sustained low-power electronic systems is largely …

The article studies the piezoelectric frequency up-converted energy harvester endowed with
an SP-SECE (self-powered synchronized electric charge extraction) interface circuit. The …

Harvesting the pervasive ultralow-frequency (< 5 Hz) mechanical energy has been
considered as a promising strategy to implement decentralized power sources for the …

This paper performs an analysis of maximum power output of piezoelectric energy
harvesters. It has been observed that there exists an overall power limit that can be obtained …

The paper studies the electrical response of an array of piezoelectric oscillators attached to
the synchronized electric charge extraction (SECE) interface circuit. The analytic estimate of …

This paper presents a unified model of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters through the
use of a generalized electrical impedance that represents various energy harvesting …

In order to scavenge the energy of ambient vibrations, bistable vibration energy harvesters
constitute a promising solution due to their large frequency bandwidth. Because of their …