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http://dx.doi.org/10.5369/JSST.2010.19.4.313

A study of vibration energy harvesting for the bimorph piezoelectric sensor  

Kim, Yong-Hyuk (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Kyungwon University)
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Journal of Sensor Science and Technology / v.19, no.4, 2010 , pp. 313-319 More about this Journal
Abstract
Vibration energy harvesting is an attractive technique for potential powering of low power devices such as wireless sensors and portable electronic applications. Most energy generator developed to date are single vibration frequency based, and while some efforts have been made to broaden the frequency range of energy harvester. In this work, The effect of energy harvesting were investigated at various vibration frequencies, vibration beams, vibration point and test masses. The maximum output voltage of the bimorph piezoelectric cantilever was shifted according to vibration point. Vibration frequency with maximum output voltage decreased with the increasing length of vibration beam and increasing test mass. The sample with vibration beam length 0.5 L generated a peak output voltage of 32 $V_{rms}$ and shows a 45 % increase in voltage output in comparison to the corresponding original bimorph. It was found that a piezoelectric bimorph has a possibility to be as the energy harvesting cantilever, which is successfully tuned over a vibration frequency range to enable a maximum harvesting energy.
Keywords
piezoelectric bimorph cantilever; vibration frequency; energy harvesting; vibration beam;
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