Nonlinear Behavior of an Electrostatic Energy Harvester Under Wide- and Narrowband Excitation

By Lars Geir Whist Tvedt, Duy-Son Nguyen, Einar Halvorsen. Journal of microelectromechanical systems, 2010

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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M-shaped asymmetric nonlinear oscillator for broadband vibration energy harvesting: Harmonic balance analysis and experimental validation (2014, methodology): “The present work focuses on the meso-scale implementation, experimentally validated modeling, and analysis of a nonlinear spring architecture formerly used in MEMSscale [56,57] electrostatic energy harvesting.”
Rotational energy harvesting using bi-stability and frequency up-conversion for low-power sensing applications: Theoretical modelling and experimental validation (2019, background): “Hardening and softening effects are two typical operating modes for monostable energy harvesters (nonlinear harvesters with one potential well) [19].”
Investigation of Multimodal Electret-Based MEMS Energy Harvester With Impact-Induced Nonlinearity (2018, background): “These nonlinearities can be derived from various origins, including special spring design [12], [13], stopper impacts [14]–[17], mechanical prestress [18], [19], electromagnetic or electrostatic tuning force [20]–[22] or a combination of stopper impacts and prestress [23].”
On the Role of Nonlinearities in Vibratory Energy Harvesting: A Critical Review and Discussion (2014, methodology): “[51] proposed and tested an electrostatic microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) harvester consisting of a center mass clamped at its four ends using hardening suspension beams.”
A new S-shaped MEMS PZT cantilever for energy harvesting from low frequency vibrations below 30 Hz (2012, background): “…is to employ energy harvesters with nonlinear behaviors by the use of magnets (Burrow and Clare 2007), prestressed structures (Marzenki et al. 2009; Tvedt et al. 2010), non-linear springs (Hajaji and Kim 2011; Nguyen and Halvorsen 2011) and mechanical stoppers (Soliman et al. 2008; Blystad and…”
Modeling and experimental verification of low-frequency MEMS energy harvesting from ambient vibrations (2011, background): “They explored the nonlinear behavior of the devices due to nonlinear spring stiffness [11] and a mechanical stopper [12] in order to improve the harvester effectiveness subjected to random input vibration.”