Advance Energy Harvesting Technologies

Energy Harvesting Technologies: Thick-Film Piezoelectric Microgenerator

Review of Energy Harvesting Technologies for Sustainable Wireless Sensor Network

The rapid growth in demands for computing everywhere has made computer a pivotal component of human mankind daily lives. Whether we use the computers to gather information from the Web, to utilize them for entertainment purposes or to use them for running businesses, computers are noticeably becoming more widespread, mobile and smaller in size. What we often overlook and did not notice is the p...

Recent Progress on PZT Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Technologies

Energy harvesting is the most effective way to respond to the energy shortage and to produce sustainable power sources from the surrounding environment. The energy harvesting technology enables scavenging electrical energy from wasted energy sources, which always exist everywhere, such as in heat, fluids, vibrations, etc. In particular, piezoelectric energy harvesting, which uses a direct energ...

A New Energy Harvesting Design Concept: Multimodal Energy Harvesting Skin

This paper proposes an advanced design concept for a piezoelectric energy harvesting (EH) device, multimodal EH skin structure, a thin and compact harvester which can generate power from multimodal vibration. Multimodal EH skin is an extended study of our previous works, EH skin, which is a new conceptual design for piezoelectric energy harvester by combining a vibrating skin structure and an a...

Kinetic Energy Harvesting

This paper reviews kinetic energy harvesting as a potential localised power supply for wireless applications. Harvesting devices are typically implemented as resonant devices of which the power output depends upon the size of the inertial mass, the frequency and amplitude of the driving vibrations, the maximum available mass displacement and the damping. Three transduction mechanisms are curren...