Resistive Impedance Matching Circuit for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

By Na Kong, Dong Sam Ha, Alper Erturk, Daniel J. Inman. 2010

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Citations in the corpus

• Underwater thrust and power generation using flexible piezoelectric composites: an experimental investigation toward self-powered swimmer-sensor platforms (2011, background): “MFCs do have lower capacitance due to reduced electrode area (hence they typically tend to have higher matched resistance [25, 61]).”
• Low-Power Design of a Self-powered Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting System With Maximum Power Point Tracking (2012, background): “These two features make the buck-boost converter a popular choice for piezoelectric energy harvesting [20]–[22].”
• Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Solutions: A Review (2020, methodology): “A solution to this problem can be resistive matching [59,60] or using a nonlinear technique called Synchronized Harvesting on Inductor (SSHI) [61].”
• An efficient vibration energy harvester with a multi-mode dynamic magnifier (2011, methodology): “In order to improve the efficiency, people have developed many methods, like the impedance matching between the piezoelectric transducer and the electrical load by Kong et al [4], Liang and Liao [5], and Chen et al [6].”
• M-shaped asymmetric nonlinear oscillator for broadband vibration energy harvesting: Harmonic balance analysis and experimental validation (2014, background): “Dynamic bending of the spring causes tensile and compressive strains on the piezoelectric layers, yielding an alternating voltage via the direct piezoelectric effect, which is then connected to an electrical load for AC power generation or rectified and conditioned in an energy harvesting circuit to”
• Impedance Modeling and Analysis for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems (2012, background): “Besides, as mentioned in Section III, the previous literature [13]–[15] assumed that maximum power transfer can be achieved, when Zcir , the input impedance of the harvesting circuit, matches Ztrans , the output impedance of the transducer.”
• Array of piezoelectric energy harvesting by the equivalent impedance approach (2012, unknown): “This includes the complex impedance analysis for AC power output [2, 20, 31] and the resistive impedance matching circuit for DC power output [13, 14, 29].”
• Energy harvesting using a PZT ceramic multilayer stack (2013, background): “However, the theoretical matched complex conjugate could not become practice and the efficiency drops off sharply outside the frequency range [46].”
• Review of Power Conditioning for Kinetic Energy Harvesting Systems (2012, methodology): “Buck [94], boost [95], buck–boost [96], and fly-back [97] switching converter topologies have been evaluated for optimum resistance matching within the energy harvesting literature.”
• A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018) (2019, methodology): “Kong et al in 2010 [303] developed an impedance matching circuit that combined a standard diode rectifier with a buck-boost converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode.”