Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods

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.

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.