A Wideband Triboelectric Energy Harvester

Strategies for Wideband Mechanical Energy Harvester

Electrically conductive fabric based stretchable triboelectric energy harvester

Stretchable conductive fabric-based triboelectric generator (TENG), to develop breathing/chest band for harvesting energy at low frequency has been developed. Stretchable conductive nylon-fabric and carbon-based elastomer composites were used as electrodes. During this work, film casting technique was implemented and combination of different materials, such as, polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and p...

A Novel Ropes-Driven Wideband Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester

This paper presents a novel piezoelectric vibration energy harvester (PVEH) in which a high-frequency generating beam (HFGB) is driven by an array of low-frequency driving beams (LFDBs) using ropes. Two mechanisms based on frequency upconversion and multimodal harvesting work together to broaden the frequency bandwidth of the proposed vibration energy harvester (VEH). The experimental results s...

Wideband Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Tuned Through its Electronic Interface Circuit

This paper reports a novel technique enabling to tune the resonant frequency of linear inertial piezoelectric energy harvesters through the control strategy of the associated electronic interface circuit. When associated with piezoelectric devices exhibiting high electromechanical coupling, it is expected to enable the variation of the resonant frequency in large proportions.

A handy motion driven hybrid energy harvester: dual Halbach array based electromagnetic and triboelectric generators

In this work, we have proposed and experimentally validated of hybrid electromagnetic and triboelectric energy harvester using dual Halbach magnets array excited by human handy motion. Hybrid electromagnetic (EM) and triboelectric (TE) generator that can deliver an output performance much higher than that of the individual energy-harvesting unit due to the combination operation of EM and TE mec...