Piezoelectric MEMS Energy Harvester for Low-Frequency Vibrations With Wideband Operation Range and Steadily Increased Output Power

By Huicong Liu, C. Tay, C. Quan, Takeshi Kobayashi, Chengkuo Lee. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2011

364 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/866598c2802bcde908a7385f6c091cc6bc450a0a

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Chengkuo Lee
2. Xinge Guo
3. Long Liu
4. Tianyiyi He
5. Feng Wen
6. Shahrzad Towfighian
7. Wei Yang
8. Qiongfeng Shi

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Chengkuo Lee
2. Huicong Liu
3. Shahrzad Towfighian
4. Wei Yang
5. Xinge Guo
6. C. Tay
7. Takeshi Kobayashi
8. Long Liu

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Chengkuo Lee
2. Huicong Liu
3. Shahrzad Towfighian
4. Wei Yang
5. Xinge Guo
6. Long Liu
7. Qiongfeng Shi
8. C. Tay

Citations in the corpus

• Development Trends and Perspectives of Future Sensors and MEMS/NEMS (2019, neutral): “As shown in Figure 9b [143], the piezoelectric MEMS energy harvesters were mounted on the carrier which has limited downward space and can act as a stopper to widen the operational bandwidth for this energy harvester.”
• Progress in TENG technology—A journey from energy harvesting to nanoenergy and nanosystem (2020, background): “However, those technologies normally necessitate complicated structures and operate under high-frequency stimuli, with low transducing efficiency and low voltage output in the low-frequency domain, which dramatically constrains their potential applications in the intelligent world.(2,6,35-42) To ove”
• Investigation of a MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester system with a frequency-widened-bandwidth mechanism introduced by mechanical stoppers (2012, neutral): “Liu et al [28, 29] realized wideband MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester (PEH) devices by using the assembled metal package and cantilever as mechanical stoppers.”
• Recent Progress on PZT Based Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Technologies (2016, background): “5 nW within the operation bandwidth from 30 Hz to 47 Hz [59,60].”
• A Hybrid Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvester (2017, methodology): “To increase the bandwidth, several methods introduced nonlinearities into the energy harvesting system [2] such as using stoppers to realize a spring hardening effect [3, 4, 5] and using axial static preload to stiffen or soften the structure [6, 7].”
• A new S-shaped MEMS PZT cantilever for energy harvesting from low frequency vibrations below 30 Hz (2012, methodology): “In the authors’ previous work (Liu et al. 2011a, b), they have demonstrated a piezoelectric MEMS wideband energy harvester by using mechanical stopper.”