Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Vibrational energy harvesting"”.
-
Micro-Scale and Nonlinear Vibrational Energy Harvesting
This work addresses issues in energy harvesting that have plagued the potential use of harvesting through the piezoelectric effect at the MEMS scale. Effective energy harvesting devices typically consist of a cantilever beam substrate coated with a thin layer of piezoceramic material and fixed with …
-
Low-frequency vibrational energy harvesting at the micro and meso scale
Energy harvesting from environmentally available vibrations is a solution to providing electric power for remote and mobile applications, such as the Internet of Things. A buckled beam-based MEMS device can harvest power from low frequency, low amplitude vibrations which has never been achieved by …
-
Ultra-low and wide bandwidth vibrational energy harvesting using a statically balanced compliant mechanism
… pollution, high maintenance cost, etc. Vibrational energy harvesting is an ideal and green powering solution due to the ubiquitous environmental vibrations and their sufficient power density (~0.3 μW/mm3). A systematic review on state-of-the-art structural methodologies of vibrational …
-
Towards and embeddable structural health monitoring sensor : design and optimization of MEMS piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters
… a practical implementation of this technique. Vibrational energy harvesting using MEMS piezoelectric resonant devices is an appealing solution to this challenge due to their relatively high potential for power generation (compared to other harvesting techniques) and capacity to be integrated …
-
Review of energy harvesting methods for twin screw extruders
Energy harvesting is the process of accumulating and storing energy from residual sources for use in powering electronic devices. Low-power energy harvesting technologies typically utilize either mechanical, thermal, radiation, flow-based, or bio-chemical energy sources. Research in low-power …
-
The study and development of distributed devices for concurrent vibration attenuation and energy harvesting
… in the process, employs a new perspective of vibrational energy harvesting devices. The first part of the research studies and develops a continuously distributed vibration control device which combines the benefits of point mass-spring-dampers at low frequencies as well as the resistive or …
-
Electrodeposited Functional Nanowires for Energy Applications
… (ME) NWs have been explored in the context of vibrational energy harvesting and magnetic energy harvesting and sensing; because of their increased piezoelectric coefficients and ME coupling compared to bulk. Low-temperature, solution-processable and hence scalable fabrication techniques have …