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Choosing energy sources for battery-free pacemakers

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Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting for Pacemaker Applications: Current State-of-the-Art, Materials, Design, and Alternative Technologies

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Metaharvesting: emergent energy harvesting by piezoelectric metamaterials

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Exponential energy harvesting through repetitive reconfigurations of a system of capacitors

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Equivalent circuit modeling and analysis of aerodynamic vortex-induced piezoelectric energy harvesting

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Aspect Ratio-Dependent Dynamics of Piezoelectric Transducers in Wireless Acoustic Power Transfer

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Comparative experimental investigation and effectiveness of sphere- and cylinder-based piezoelectric energy harvesters

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Material influence in newly proposed ferroelectric energy harvesters

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Investigation of nonlinear magnetic stiffness based thin-layer stacked piezoelectric generators with a force-amplification structure

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Recent developments in functional triboelectric nanogenerators for flame-retardant, human health, and energy-harvesting fields: a crucial review

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An advanced folded piezoelectric vibration energy harvester with low resonant frequency and high power density

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Brillouin-zone characterization of piezoelectric material intrinsic energy-harvesting availability

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Optimal control strategies for efficient energy harvesting from ambient vibration

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Conceptual Piezoelectric-Based Energy Harvester from In Vivo Heartbeats’ Cyclic Kinetic Motion for Leadless Intracardiac Pacemakers

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MICRO-PLATE PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTER FOR PULSATING ARTERIAL PRESSURE

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A human heartbeat frequencies based 2-DOF piezoelectric energy harvester for pacemaker application

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Modeling of a Beam With a Mass in the Middle for Heart Beat Vibration Energy Harvesting

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Using an elastic magnifier to increase power output and performance of heart-beat harvesters

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Powering Smart Wireless Implantable Medical Devices: Toward an internet of self-powered intra-body things

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Harvesting Energy from Internal Flows with Submerged Piezocomposite Transducers

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Performance metric comparison study for non-magnetic bi-stable energy harvesters

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A Tunable Resonance Cantilever for Cardiac Energy Harvesting

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Wind turbine speed control of a contactless piezoelectric wind energy harvester

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Medical Applications of Piezoelectric Microelectromechanical Systems

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Study on improving current generating time of piezoelectric energy harvesting system

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Wireless Pacing Using an Asynchronous Three-Tiered Inductive Power Transfer System

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Nonlinear vibration analysis of the high-efficiency compressive-mode piezoelectric energy harvester

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Effects of Orientations on Efficiency of Energy Harvesting from Heart Motion Using Ultrathin Flexible Piezoelectric Devices

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Understanding Effects of Tapering Cantilevered Piezoelectric Bimorphs for Energy Harvesting from Vibrations

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Implantable Sensors

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Research on Output Characteristics of Double-Ended Fixed Beam Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Under Random Excitation

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