A piezoelectric power harvester with adjustable frequency through axial preloads

By Yuantai Hu, H. Xue, Hongping Hu. 2007

160 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/d40cc73ef0a4ff604e0d9c3a51d867acf0a58720

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Lihua Tang
2. Yaowen Yang
3. Chee Kiong Soh
4. S. Beeby
5. M. Tudor
6. Dibin Zhu
7. Abdessattar Abdelkefi
8. Daniel J. Inman

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Lihua Tang
2. Yaowen Yang
3. Chee Kiong Soh
4. M. Tudor
5. S. Beeby
6. Dibin Zhu
7. Abdessattar Abdelkefi
8. Daniel J. Inman

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Lihua Tang
2. Yaowen Yang
3. Chee Kiong Soh
4. M. Tudor
5. S. Beeby
6. Dibin Zhu
7. Abdessattar Abdelkefi
8. Daniel J. Inman

Citations in the corpus

• Strategies for increasing the operating frequency range of vibration energy harvesters: a review (2010, methodology): “A method to apply axial preload to a piezoelectric bimorph [31].”
• Toward Broadband Vibration-based Energy Harvesting (2010, background): “Analytically, Hu et al. (2007) derived the governing equations of a cantilever piezoelectric bimorph (PB) with an axial preload and investigated its feasibility and characteristics of resonance.”
• A multiple-degree-of-freedom piezoelectric energy harvesting model (2012, background): “Mechanical preload (Hu et al., 2007; Leland and Wright, 2006) and magnetic force (Challa et al.”
• Improving functionality of vibration energy harvesters using magnets (2012, methodology): “Applying mechanical preload (Hu et al., 2007; Leland and Wright, 2006) and using magnetic forces (Challa et al., 2008, 2011) and piezoelectric actuators (Peters et al., 2009; Wischke et al., 2010) have been widely adopted as the tuning mechanisms.”