Advances in Energy Harvesting Methods / Edition 1

by Niell Elvin, Alper Erturk

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461457046
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	02/16/2013
Edition description:	2013
Pages:	455
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.05(d)

About the Author

Niell Elvin, The City College of New York, [e-mail]

Alper Erturk, Georgia Institute of Technology, [e-mail]

Table of Contents

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.