Two-dimensional concentrated-stress low-frequency piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Sharpes, Nathan ^a   Abdelkefi, Abdessattar ^b   Priya, Shashank ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; NANOCANTILEVERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CONCENTRATED STRESS; ENERGY HARVESTER; PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION; RESONANCE BENDING; STATE OF THE ART; TORSIONAL EFFECT; VIBRATION-BASED ENERGY HARVESTERS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84940702775     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4929844     Document Type: Article

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33. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4929844 E-APPLAB-107-064535 for details about test specimen fabrication, measurement of damping ratio and short-open frequencies, finite element analysis simulations, and analytical model derivation.