Review of Power Conditioning for Kinetic Energy Harvesting Systems

By György D. Szarka, Bernard H. Stark, S. Burrow. IEEE transactions on power electronics, 2012

305 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

A review of energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials: state-of-the-art a decade later (2008–2018) (2019, methodology): “The reader is referred to the review articles by Guyomar and Lallart in 2011 [310] and Szarka et al in 2012 [311] as well as the book chapters by Badel and Lefeuvre in 2016 [305], and Chen in 2019 [312] for a more comprehensive review on piezoelectric energy harvesting conditioning circuits.”
On the efficiency of piezoelectric energy harvesters (2017, unknown): “A variety of electrical circuits have been proposed to treat the AC current from PEHs, including various DC–DC converter topologies [54,55], SSHI [56], SSHI-MR [57], SECE [58], OSECE [59], biasflip interface circuit [60], single-supply pre-biasing circuit [61] and so on.”
Power-Extraction Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters in Miniature and Low-Power Applications (2012, background): “A general review of energy harvesting power conditioning circuits is given in [11].”
A Review of Electric Impedance Matching Techniques for Piezoelectric Sensors, Actuators and Transducers (2019, methodology): “To optimize the efficiency of the receiver due to a large variation of load, first-order calculations are available to model nonlinear power recovery circuits, which can yield a high efficiency of 80% [139,140].”