A self-powered mechanical strain energy sensor

By Niell Elvin, Alex Elvin, M. Spector. 2001

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Citations in the corpus

• Vibration energy harvesting by magnetostrictive material (2008, methodology): “effort F to effort v), so they are modeled as an electromechanical transformer in parallel connected with an equivalent capacitor [18, 20, 21].”
• Analysis of power output for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems (2006, methodology): “Elvin et al [6, 7] and Ng and Liao [27] have used the piezoelectric element simultaneously as a power generator and a sensor.”
• Efficiency Enhancement of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Device in Pulsed Operation by Synchronous Charge Inversion (2005, background): “They are able to supply electrical devices with very low average power requirements (lower than a Watt), such as sensors (Elvin et al., 2001; Horowitz et al., 2002), remote control devices (Roundy et al., 2003), or any device able to generate a sufficient amount of energy for an intermittent use…”
• A Review of Power Harvesting from Vibration using Piezoelectric Materials (2004, methodology): “Elvin et al. (2001) used a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) piezofilm sensor attached to a simply-supported Plexiglas beam with an aspect ratio of 0.11 to generate an electrical signal.”
• Sensitivity Analysis and Energy Harvesting for a Self-Powered Piezoelectric Sensor (2005, background): “One related study was reported (Elvin et al., 2001); they focused on the analysis of a mechanical strain sensor with wireless transmission, and an investigation on the sensor frequency and force magnitude responses.”
• Micro-Electrostatic Vibration-to-Electricity Converters (2002, background): “[8] have designed a self powered strain sensor that wirelessly transmits its data.”
• Energy harvesting vibration sources for microsystems applications (2006, background): “Elvin et al [76] have explored the possibility of using the energy generated from a piezoelectric sensor to power a wireless link thereby realizing a self-powered wireless strain sensor.”
• Introduction to carbon nanotube and nanofiber smart materials (2006, background): “Generating and storing parasitic energy with a conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy using piezoelectric and electromagnetic approaches has been studied and there is limited power available per weight and size of the generator element [53–55].”