Impact-driven Broadband Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting: Design and Applications
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 374
Special Issue Editors
Interests: piezoelectric energy harvesting; vibration and dynamics; mechatronics; vehicle dynamics
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Dear Colleagues,
Energy-related research has received a significant amount of attention because of the concern with sustainability and the demand for self-powered electronic devices. Over the past two decades, energy harvesting technologies have been developed and provided a solution to power small electronics instead of batteries or power lines. The use of energy harvesting as a power source can dramatically reduce the construction and maintenance costs and enable self-powered electronic devices that operate under vibrations and impacts. The property of frequency up-conversion makes impact-based piezoelectric energy harvesting suitable for low-frequency and broadband applications over vibration-based piezoelectric energy harvesting. There is much demand for high-efficiency impact-driven piezoelectric energy harvesters for versatile applications. In this Special Issue, we aim to showcase the state-of-the-art of impact-driven energy harvesting. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
l innovative designs for broadband impact-driven energy harvesting;
l modeling of and experiments on impact-driven energy harvesting;
l conditioning circuits for impact-driven energy harvesting;
l energy storage systems for impact-driven energy harvesting;
l optimization of impact-driven energy harvesters;
l efficiency studies of impact-driven energy harvesting;
l enhancement of the durability of impact-driven energy harvesters; and
l application-oriented studies on impact-driven energy harvesting.
Prof. Dr. Wei-Jiun Su
Prof. Dr. Yum Ji Chan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- piezoelectricity
- piezoelectric energy harvesting
- vibration
- impact
- broadband harvesting
- conditioning circuit
- energy storage
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