Mechanical Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

Prof. Qingsong XU has been working in the area of mechatronics and robotics for 15 years. He has published over 270 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in related domains. Prof. Lap Mou TAM has been working in the area of heat transfer, energy systems, and chaos for 30 years. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences in related domains.

1. Introduction
2. Energy Harvesting Materials and Circuits
3. Survey on Mechanical Designs of Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
4. Review of Energy Harvesting from Human Walking
5. Design of a New Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Compound Two-Stage Force Amplification Frame
6. Design of a New Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Handrail with Vibration and Force Excitations
7. Design of a Novel Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Based on Integrated Multi-Stage Force Amplification Frame
8. Design and Testing of a Novel Bidirectional Energy Harvester with Single Piezoelectric Stack
9. Design and Testing of a Novel 2-D Energy Harvester with Single Piezoelectric Stack
10. Design of a Novel 2-D Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Permanent Magnets and Multi-Stage Force Amplifier
11. Design and Testing of a New Dual-Axial Underfloor Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
12. Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Novel 3-D Energy Harvester
13. Conclusions