A perspective on elastic metastructures for energy harvesting

Zhihui Wen; Wan Wang; Abdelkrim Khelif; Bahram Djafari-Rouhani; Yabin Jin

doi:10.1063/5.0078740

A perspective on elastic metastructures for energy harvesting

Zhihui Wen, Wan Wang, Abdelkrim Khelif, Bahram Djafari-Rouhani, Yabin Jin^*

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Rapid advances have been made in the properties of metastructures, including phononic crystals, metamaterials, and metasurfaces, with respect to their robustness, high power density, and broadband behavior. This presents unique advantages for energy harvesting devices to meet the demands for technology upgrades in various applied science and engineering applications such as wireless sensors, MEMS, and wearable devices. We provide a systematic overview of the mechanisms underlying the above properties, considering different configurations of wave localization in elastic metastructures for energy harvesting purposes. The energy localization can result from cavity modes, topologically protected edge/cavity modes, chiral edge mode, focusing effects, among others. Finally, we give the prospects of energy harvesting metastructures such as the introduction of nonlinear design, time-modulation, machine learning inverse design, and nonlocal effects. Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.

Original language	English
Article number	020501
Number of pages	12
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	120
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0078740
Publication status	Published - 10 Jan 2022
Externally published	Yes

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