Vibrational broadband energy harvesting has been the most focused application of bistable
composite plates paired with piezoelectric materials due to their wide array of nonlinear …

Bistable structures with the elastic instability caused by buckling are confirmed to perform
significantly in micro-electromechanical systems, metamaterials, energy harvester, vibration …

Piezoelectric energy harvesters utilizing vortex-induced vibrations (VIV) have been
extensively studied for converting wind energy into usable power for microelectronics. In this …

Recently bistable composite laminates have been investigated for broadband energy
harvesting, by taking advantage of their nonlinear oscillations around the first vibration …

In this article, bistable laminates are statically and dynamically studied under the existence
of nonlinear magnetic force. The bistable laminates with magnetic forces are considered as …

In this paper a bistable asymmetric laminate is manufactured and coupled to a ferroelectric
material for potential energy harvesting applications. A cantilever configuration is explored …

Nonlinear harvesting devices have been shown to maintain large amplitude oscillations
over a wider range of frequencies than their linear counter parts. Central to exploiting the …

There has been considerable research on the design of vibration based energy harvesters
in the last decade exploring the potential of autonomous power supply for miniaturized …

This thesis presents novel research in the area of energy harvesting from broadband
vibrations. The aim of energy harvesting is to recover energy wasted or unused in the …