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ProfessorEricYeatman

Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 6204e.yeatman CV

 
 
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Assistant

 

Ms Anna McCormick +44 (0)20 7594 6189

 
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Location

 

610aElectrical EngineeringSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inproceedings{Fu:2016:1/012008,
author = {Fu, H and Yeatman, EM},
doi = {1/012008},
publisher = {IOP Publishing},
title = {Broadband Rotational Energy Harvesting with Non-linear Oscillator and Piezoelectric Transduction},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/773/1/012008},
year = {2016}
}
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RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Rotational energy is widely distributed in many industrial and domestic applications, such as ventilation systems, moving vehicles and miniature turbines. This paper reports the design and implementation of a bi-stable rotational energy harvester with wide bandwidth and low operating frequency. The rotational energy is converted into electricity by magnetic plucking of a piezoelectric cantilever using a driving magnet mounted on a rotating host. The bistable condition is achieved by introducing a fixed magnet above the tip magnet at the cantilever's free end. The repulsive magnetic force between the magnets creates two equilibrium positions for the piezoelectric beam. The harvester is designed to operate in the high energy orbit (interwell vibration mode) to extract more energy from the rotational energy source. Harvesters with and without bistability are compared experimentally, showing the difference of power extraction on both the output power and bandwidth. The method proposed in this paper provides a simple and efficient way to extract rotational energy from the ambient environment.
AU  - Fu,H
AU  - Yeatman,EM
DO  - 1/012008
PB  - IOP Publishing
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1742-6588
TI  - Broadband Rotational Energy Harvesting with Non-linear Oscillator and Piezoelectric Transduction
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/773/1/012008
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/50049
ER  -
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