Fabrication and characterization of free-standing thick-film piezoelectric cantilevers for energy harvesting
Research into energy harvesting from ambient vibration sources has attracted great interest over the last few years, largely as a result of advances in the areas of wireless technology and low-power electronics. One of the mechanisms for converting mechanical vibration to electrical energy is the u...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4365/1/Fabrication_and_characterisation_of_free-standing_thick-film_piezoelectric_cantilevers_for_energy_harvesting.pdf http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/4365/ http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-0233/20/12/124010/ |
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| Institution: | Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Research into energy harvesting from ambient vibration sources has attracted great interest over the last few years, largely as a result of advances in the areas of wireless technology and low-power electronics. One of the mechanisms for converting mechanical vibration to
electrical energy is the use of piezoelectric materials, typically operating as a cantilever in a bending mode, which generate a voltage across the electrodes when they are stressed. Typically, the piezoelectric materials are deposited on a non-electro-active substrate and are
physically clamped at one end to a rigid base. The presence of the substrate does not contribute directly to the electrical output, but merely serves as a mechanical supporting platform, which can pose difficulties for integration with other microelectronic devices. The
aim of this paper is to describe a novel thick-film free-standing cantilever structure that does not use a supporting platform and has the advantage of minimizing the movement constraints on the piezoelectric material, thereby maximizing the electrical output power. Two configurations of the composite cantilever structure were investigated: unimorph and multimorph. A unimorph consists of a pair of silver/palladium (Ag/Pd) electrodes sandwiching a laminar layer of lead zirconate titanate (PZT). A mulitmorph is an extended version of the unimorph with two pairs of Ag/Pd electrodes and three laminar sections of PZT. |
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