Power remains the quiet obstacle slowing the global expansion of wearable and IoT devices. Despite rapid technological ...

The skies may haverained on this year’s big climate summit in Belém, Brazil, but engineers have invented plenty of exciting ...

Micro-jumping robots offer unique advantages in scenarios such as confined space exploration and post-disaster search and rescue. However, ...

Abstract: Vibration energy harvesting is a promising power solution for autonomous wireless sensor nodes, particularly in volume-constrained Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. Piezoelectric (PE) ...

ABSTRACT: Due to our busy lifestyles, our health is quite precarious these days. We designed a device using piezoelectric materials. Electric charges are generated on the surfaces of certain materials ...

(A) Schematic diagram of the overall experimental setup. (B) The bees’ flight experiment box. (C) Photos of the experimental setup. (D) Schematic of the bees’ loading method and masses. CMOS, ...

The device uses the piezoelectric effect, where certain materials generate electricity when stressed or pressured. (Representational image)Jeevan GB/iStock Researchers at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute ...

Abstract: As the load deviates away from the maximum power point (MPP), the output power of the current piezoelectric energy harvester with synchronous switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI) drops ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. In this study, we report an approach that imparts ...