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Overview of Vibration Energy Harvesting

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The purpose of this chapter is to present a comprehensive overview of the previous research published relevant to the book’s aims and objectives introduced in Chap. 1. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the chapter begins with a short background highlighting the necessity of energy harvesting with brief surveys of power generation capabilities of some potential ambient sources and power requirements by some modern electronic devices. This is then followed by a critical review of PVEH techniques and its application to vibration control . In this chapter, it is endeavoured to build the fundamental understanding of the readers in order to comprehend the more complex modelling concepts of piezoelectric electromechanical energy harvesting systems developed in the later chapters of the book.

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Rafique, S. (2018). Overview of Vibration Energy Harvesting. In: Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesting. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69442-9_2

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