Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction to Vibration Energy Harvesting

   • Elena Blokhina, Abdelali El Aroudi, Eduard Alarcon, Dimitri Galayko

   Pages 1-21

3. MEMS Technologies for Energy Harvesting

   • Manuel Domínguez-Pumar, Joan Pons-Nin, Juan A. Chávez-Domínguez

   Pages 23-63

4. Oscillators for Energy Harvesting

   • E. Blokhina, D. Galayko

   Pages 65-106

5. Transducers for Energy Harvesting

   • E. Blokhina, A. El Aroudi, D. Galayko

   Pages 107-125

6. Nonlinear Structural Mechanics of Micro-and Nanosystems

   • Hassen M. Ouakad

   Pages 127-195

7. Nonlinear Dynamics of Ambient Noise-Driven Graphene Nanostructured Devices for Energy Harvesting

   • A. El Aroudi, M. López-Suárez, E. Alarcón, R. Rurali, G. Abadal

   Pages 197-212

8. End-Stop Nonlinearities in Vibration Energy Harvesters

   • Sukhdeep Kaur, Cuong Phu Le

   Pages 213-238

9. Conditioning Circuits for Capacitive Energy Harvesters

   • D. Galayko

   Pages 239-277

10. Analysis and Modelling of Nonlinearties in Vibration Energy Harvesters

    • Peter Harte, Dimitri Galayko, Orla Feely, Elena Blokhina

    Pages 279-320

11. Nonlinear Conditioning Circuits for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

    • Adrien Badel, Elie Lefeuvre

    Pages 321-359

This book is a single-source guide to nonlinearity and nonlinear techniques in energy harvesting, with a focus on vibration energy harvesters for micro and nanoscale applications. The authors demonstrate that whereas nonlinearity was avoided as an undesirable phenomenon in early energy harvesters, now it can be used as an essential part of these systems. Readers will benefit from an overview of nonlinear techniques and applications, as well as deeper insight into methods of analysis and modeling of energy harvesters, employing different nonlinearities. The role of nonlinearity due to different aspects of an energy harvester is discussed, including nonlinearity due to mechanical-to-electrical conversion, nonlinearity due to conditioning electronic circuits, nonlinearity due to novel materials (e.g., graphene), etc. Coverage includes tutorial introductions to MEMS and NEMS technology, as well as a wide range of applications, such as nonlinear oscillators and transducers for energy harvesters and electronic conditioning circuits for effective energy processing.

• Ambient Vibration Energy Harvesters
• Energy Harvesting
• Low-energy Electronics
• MEMS Energy Harvesters
• Microscale Energy Harvesting
• NEMS Energy Harvesters
• Nanoscale Energy Harvesting
• Nonlinearity in Energy Harvesting
• Vibration Energy Harvesters

• School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  Elena Blokhina

• Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering, University Rovira I Virgili, Tarragona, Spain

  Abdelali El Aroudi

• Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

  Eduard Alarcon

• Laboratory of Computer Sciences, UPMC—Sorbonne Universities, Paris, Finland

  Dimitri Galayko

Since 2007, Elena Blokhina has been with the School of Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland and is currently a lecturer and the research manager of the Circuits and Systems Research Group. Abdelaili El Aroudi is a professor at the University of Rovira, Finland, in the Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering. Eduard Alarcon is a tenured Associate Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain.

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