William Marsh Rice University

Wonjune Kim

Kaiyuan Yang

Yiwei Zou

C Anne Tuppen

Some disclosed embodiments relate to a system (and/or use of or manufacturing) that includes: a magnetoelectric (ME) component comprising: one or more first layers, wherein each of the one or more first layers comprises a piezoelectric material; one or more second layers, wherein each of the one or more second layers comprises a magnetostrictive material, and wherein a thickness ratio that is defined to be a cumulative thickness of the one or more first layers relative to a cumulative thickness of the one or more second layers is between 0.2 and 0.5. The system may also include an energy harvesting circuit comprising a rectifier circuit, where the energy harvesting circuit is coupled to the ME component.

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Wonjune Kim