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Design and Evaluation of a Piezoelectric Energy Harvester Produced with a Finite Element Method

  • Kim, Chul-Min;Kim, Chang-Il;Lee, Joo-Hee;Paik, Jong-Hoo;Cho, Jeong-Ho;Chun, Myoung-Pyo;Jeong, Young-Hun;Lee, Young-Jin
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • 제11권5호
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    • pp.206-211
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    • 2010
  • Piezoelectric energy harvesting uses piezoelectric, which is able to convert unused mechanical vibration energy to electrical energy, such as with motor and machinery. The piezoelectric energy harvester was constructed with a cantilever made of lead zirconate titanate with a metal plate. The primary material was soft lead zirconium titanate (PZT-5H) due to the large strain availability, acceptable mechanical strength and high piezoelectric constant. This technique's drawback is that the energy efficiency is lower than the other energy harvesting methods, but this study increases the output electric power efficiency by analyzing a finite element method for the structure of the piezoelectric energy harvester. We manufactured two cantilever types as follows: the L-60 and L-33 bimorph piezoelectric energy harvesters. Their resulting energy harvesters were able to obtain high voltage values as follows: 27.4 mV and 40.6 mV. Moreover, these results have a similar band of resonance frequency it comparison to the simulation. Consequently, this study was confirmed with validity. The output electric powers of the L-60 and L-33 types have 3.1 mW/s and 5.8 mW/s with 47 Hz and 148 Hz of resonance frequency and then, the load resistivities were $100k\Omega$ and $10k\Omega$, respectively.

[001] 및 [011] 방향 분극의 압전 단결정 PMN-PZT를 이용한 진동 에너지 수확 특성 (Performance Characteristics of Vibration Energy Harvesting Using [001] and [011]-Poled PMN-PZT Single Crystals)

  • 김재은;김영철;선경호
    • 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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    • 제24권11호
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    • pp.890-897
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    • 2014
  • This work investigated the electromechanical performance of a cantilevered vibration energy harvester incorporating the single crystal PMN-PZT, manufactured with the most recent technology of solid-state single crystal growth. The performances of single crystal PMN-PZTs with two different crystallographic axes such as [011] and [001] are compared with those of PZT ceramics. From the investigations, it is shown that the [001]-poled PMN-PZT is advantageous for the excitations containing single dominant frequency component, while the single crystal [011]-$d_{32}$ is superior in terms of the energy storage density and energy conversion efficiency.

압전 진동 에너지 수확 장치의 전기 유발 감쇠 특성 및 최대 전력 발생 조건 (Electrically Induced Damping Characteristics and a Relevant Requirement for the Maximum Power Generation in Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvesters)

  • 김재은
    • 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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    • 제25권6호
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    • pp.406-413
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    • 2015
  • The piezoelectric coupling in piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters with load resistance induces electrical damping as well as increase in the system stiffness. Starting from analytically deriving the explicit relations through governing equations in the frequency domain, this work identifies the characteristics of the electrically induced damping mechanism and shows that the electrically induced damping serves as a structural hysteretic damping on condition that a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester is excited at its short-circuit resonant frequency and its load resistor is optimally impedance- matched at the same time. Finally, it is analytically verified that the equivalence of a mechanical and an electrically induced damping ratio is required for the maximum power generation at a load resistor, which was claimed in some literature.

Cantilever형 바이몰프 압전소자의 출력특성에 관한 연구 (A Study on the Output Characteristics for the Cantilever Piezoelectric Bimorph)

  • 김용혁
    • 전기학회논문지
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    • 제59권3호
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    • pp.581-587
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    • 2010
  • Using piezoelectric elements to harvest energy from ambient vibrations has been of great interest over the past few years. Due to the relatively low power output of piezoelectric materials, there are many study to improve the energy harvesting efficiencies. This paper is study the efficiencies of the output energy considering the cantilever piezoelectric bimorph using aluminum vibration beam. when the length of vibration beam and the piezoelectric body becomes same and the maximum output power comes out. DC voltage was increased as the beam thickness and vibration frequency was increased. The vibration beam was able to achieve very large energy value.

[001] 및 [011] 방향 분극의 압전 단결정 PMN-PZT 를 이용한 진동 에너지 수확 특성 (Performance Characteristics of Vibration Energy Harvesting Using [001] and [011]-Poled PMN-PZT Single Crystals)

  • 선경호;김영철;김재은
    • 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.539-543
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    • 2014
  • This work investigated the electromechanical performance of a cantilevered vibration energy harvester incorporating the single crystal PMN-PZT, manufactured with the most recent technology of solid-state single crystal growth. Single crystal PMN-PZTs with two different crystallographic axes such as [011] and [001] were considered. For the [011] orientation, because material properties such as the stiffness, piezoelectric strain coefficients are not the same in the directions normal to the crystallographic axis, the effects of the transversely anisotropy on the magnitude and frequency bandwidth of output power were also analyzed.

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