Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting using a Synchronized Switch Technique

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An improved analysis of the SSHI interface in piezoelectric energy harvesting (2007, background): “It is shown that the electrical harvested power can be increased by as much as 400–900% over the standard technique [4, 5, 21, 39].”
Efficiency Enhancement of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Device in Pulsed Operation by Synchronous Charge Inversion (2005, methodology): “Moreover, this device can be self-powered (Guyomar et al., 2004a).*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.”
Comparison of electromagnetic and piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters: Model and experiments (2012, background): “The behaviour of the system can be described by the coupled mechanical (1) and electrical (2) equations [21].”
An efficient vibration energy harvester with a multi-mode dynamic magnifier (2011, background): “Badel et al [7] augmented the harvester with an electrical switching device, in which the switch is triggered in a special manner to maximize the output voltage of the harvester.”
Vibration harvesting in traffic tunnels to power wireless sensor nodes (2011, methodology): “scavenged power can be significantly increased by employing nonlinear voltage processing techniques, like SSHI (Badel et al [18]) and SECE (Lefeuvre et al [19]).”