A magnetoelectric vibration converter with tunable resonance frequency

Abstract

Integration of smart materials to harvest energy from low vibration sources for powering wireless sensor networks has been of significant interest and still is. Owing to large magnetostriction and energy density of Terfenol- D, the use of piezoelectric/Terfenol-D composites exhibit great potential for the realization of vibration converters. In this work, a magnetoelectric vibration converter is dpresented. The interaction between the magnetic circuit and the magnetoelectric transducer is employed to tune the resonance frequency of the converter.