This book examines diverse aspects of energy harvesting, based on research in broadband energy harvesting, electronics/circuitry, and materials. It illustrates recent advances in low-power circuitry as well as recent advances in materials aspects.

Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods presents a state-of-the-art understanding of diverse aspects of energy harvesting with a focus on: broadband energy conversion, new concepts in electronic circuits, and novel materials. This book covers recent advances in energy harvesting using different transduction mechanisms; these include methods of performance enhancement using nonlinear effects, non-harmonic forms of excitation and non-resonant energy harvesting, fluidic energy harvesting, and advances in both low-power electronics as well as material science. The contributors include a brief literature review of prior research with each chapter for further reference.

Covers multiphysics problems such as fluidic energy harvesting Describes nonlinear effects for performance enhancement, for example, broadband energy harvesting Contains examples of realistic problems of energy harvesting, such as from random ambient vibration Covers recent advances in low-power circuitry, such as efforts in ultra-low power analog circuit design as well as recent advances in novel energy harvesting materials and fabrication techniques Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Niell Elvin, The City College of New York, elvin@me.ccny.cuny.edu

Alper Erturk, Georgia Institute of Technology, alper.erturk@me.gatech.edu

Inhalt

Introduction and Methods of Mechanical Energy Harvesting.- Broadband Vibration Energy Harvesting Techniques.- MEMS Electrostatic Energy Harvesters with Nonlinear Springs.- Broadband Energy Harvesting from a Bistable Potential Well.- Plucked Piezoelectric Bimorphs for Energy Harvesting.- Energy Harvesting with Vibrating Shoe-Mounted Piezoelectric Cantilevers.- Role of Stiffness Nonlinearities in the Transduction of Energy Harvesters Under White Gaussian Excitations.- Random Excitation of Bistable Harvesters.- Energy Harvesting from Fluids using Ionic Polymer Metal Composites.- Flow-Induced Vibrations for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting.- Airfoil-Based Linear and Nonlinear Electroaeroelastic Energy Harvesting.- Acoustic Energy Harvesting using Sonic Crystals.- Power Conditioning Techniques for Energy Harvesting.- Asynchronous Event-Based Self-Powering, Computation and Data-Logging.- Vibration-Based Energy-Harvesting Integrated Circuits.- Stretching the Capabilities of Energy Harvesting: Electroactive Polymers Based on Dielectric Elastomers.- Materials and Devices for MEMS Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting.- Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvesting with High Permeability Magnetic Materials.