@inproceedings{c44e706317e146c4a7a96f0c8c18ae20,
title = "Springless vibration energy harvesters",
abstract = "A novel vibration energy harvester (VEH) architecture is developed to eliminate the need for restoring force elements (springs) in the VEH. The architecture can realize VEHs with arbitrarily low center frequency. Two prototypes were fabricated and tested to demonstrate the feasibility of this architecture. The center frequency of the first prototype was found to be 2 Hz demonstrating low frequency operation. The second prototype improve the performance by five times at much smaller footprint using thin film fabrication process and precision alignment.",
keywords = "Electrostatic, Energy harvester, Springless, Vibration",
author = "Mahmoud, \{Mohamed A.E.\} and Abdel-Rahman, \{Eihab M.\} and Mansour, \{Raafat R.\} and El-Saadany, \{Ehab F.\}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1115/DETC2010-29046",
language = "British English",
isbn = "9780791844120",
series = "Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference",
pages = "703--711",
booktitle = "ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2010",
note = "ASME 2010 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2010 ; Conference date: 15-08-2010 Through 18-08-2010",
}