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http://dx.doi.org/10.4313/JKEM.2011.24.5.416

A Study on Energy Harvester with Cantilever Structure Using PZT Piezoelectric Material  

Cha, Doo-Yeol (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
Lee, Soo-Jin (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University)
Chang, Sung-Pil (Department of Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers / v.24, no.5, 2011 , pp. 416-421 More about this Journal
Abstract
Nowadays, the increasing demands upon mobile devices such as wireless sensor networks and the recent advent of low power electrical devices such as MEMS make such renewable power sources attractive. A vibration-driven MEMS lead zirconate titanate $Pb(Zr,Ti)O_3$ (PZT) cantilever device is developed for energy harvesting application. This paper presents a piezoelectric based energy harvester which is suitable for power generating from conventional vibration and has in providing energy for low power electron ic devices. The PZT cantilever is used d33 mode to get the electrical power. The PZT cantilever based energy harvester with the dimension of 7 mm${\times}$3 mm${\times}$0.03 mm is fabricated using micromachining technologies. This PZT cantilever has the mechanical resonance frequency with a 900 Hz. With these conditions, we get experimentally the 37 uW output power from this device with the application of 1g acceleration using the 900 Hz vibration. From this study, we show the feasibility of one of energy harvesting candidates using PZT based structure. This PZT energy harvester could be used for various applications such a batteryless micro sensors and micro power generators.
Keywords
MEMS; Energy harvester; PZT; Resonance frequency;
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