Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting
Piezoelectric materials provide one approach for converting mechanical to electrical energy and can therefore be used to harvest energy from ambient vibration sources. Typically, piezoelectric materials are fabricated onto thin substrates, such as aluminum and stainless steel. These serve as mechani...
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| description | Piezoelectric materials provide one approach for converting mechanical to electrical energy and can therefore be used to harvest energy from ambient vibration sources. Typically, piezoelectric materials are fabricated onto thin substrates, such as aluminum and stainless steel. These serve as mechanical support platforms to function as a cantilever beam structure. The platforms, however, are non-electro-active and they do not contribute directly to the electrical power output. The aim of this paper is to describe a novel multimorph cantilever structure in a free-standing form. Multimorphs consist of three laminar sections of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) of equal thickness 40 ¿m and length 18 mm were polarized in two modes; series and parallel. An optimum output power of 42 ¿W was measured when the series polarized sample was excited at its resonant frequency of 400 Hz. |
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| spelling | utem-43722015-05-28T02:41:29Z http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4372/ Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting Kok, Swee Leong White, Neil Harris, Nick TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Piezoelectric materials provide one approach for converting mechanical to electrical energy and can therefore be used to harvest energy from ambient vibration sources. Typically, piezoelectric materials are fabricated onto thin substrates, such as aluminum and stainless steel. These serve as mechanical support platforms to function as a cantilever beam structure. The platforms, however, are non-electro-active and they do not contribute directly to the electrical power output. The aim of this paper is to describe a novel multimorph cantilever structure in a free-standing form. Multimorphs consist of three laminar sections of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) of equal thickness 40 ¿m and length 18 mm were polarized in two modes; series and parallel. An optimum output power of 42 ¿W was measured when the series polarized sample was excited at its resonant frequency of 400 Hz. 2008 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4372/1/%281107%29_Free-standing_thick-film_piezoelectric_multimorph_cantilevers_for_energy_harvesting.pdf Kok, Swee Leong and White, Neil and Harris, Nick (2008) Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting. In: IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, 20-23 Sept. 2009, Roma, Italy. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5441676&tag=1 |
| spellingShingle | TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Kok, Swee Leong White, Neil Harris, Nick Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| title | Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| title_full | Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| title_fullStr | Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| title_full_unstemmed | Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| title_short | Free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| title_sort | free-standing thick-film piezoelectric multimorph cantilevers for energy harvesting |
| topic | TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering |
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