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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 19, Issue 1, Pages 660-668Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2018.1508985
Keywords
Vibration energy harvester; piezoelectric; PVDF; piezoelectric coupling analysis; low frequency
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- JSPS Science Research Grant [JP17H03196]
- JST PRESTO [JPMJPR15R3]
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This paper proposes a bimorph piezoelectric vibration energy harvester (PVEH) with a flexible 3D meshed-core elastic layer for improving the output power while lowering the resonance frequency. Owing to the high void ratio of the 3D meshed-core structure, the bending stiffness of the cantilever can be lowered. Thus, the deflection of the harvester and the strain in the piezoelectric layer increase. According to vibration tests, the resonance frequency is 15.8% lower and the output power is 68% higher than in the conventional solid-core PVEH. Compared to the solid-core PVEH, the proposed meshed-core PVEH (10 mm x 20 mm x 280 mu m) has 1.3 times larger tip deflection and the maximum output power is 24.6 mu W under resonance condition at 18.7Hz and 0.2G acceleration. Hence it can be used as a power supply for low-power-consumption sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks.
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