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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 110, Issue 22, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4984895
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61076106, 61376116]
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This letter proposes an impact-based piezoelectric energy harvester that uses a rolling bead contained in a bracket that is supported by a spring. Under either translational or rotational base excitation, the bead moves within the bracket and collides with piezoelectric cantilevers that are located around the bracket; these collisions cause the piezoelectric beams to vibrate and thus produce electrical outputs. The low rolling friction and the motion amplification effect of the spring make the resulting device suitable for collection of low-level vibration energy. Experiments show that the proposed harvester is promising for use in scavenging of energy from the multidimensional, low-level, broadband, and low-frequency vibrations that occur in natural environments. Published by AIP Publishing.
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