A review of piezoelectric energy harvesting based on vibration

This paper reviews energy harvesting technology from mechanical vibration. Recent advances on ultralow power portable electronic devices and wireless sensor network require limitless battery life for better performance. People searched for permanent portable power sources for advanced electronic dev...

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Published inInternational journal of precision engineering and manufacturing Vol. 12; no. 6; pp. 1129 - 1141
Main Authors Kim, Heung Soo, Kim, Joo-Hyong, Kim, Jaehwan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Springer Korean Society for Precision Engineering 01.12.2011
Subjects
Engineering
Industrial and Production Engineering
Materials Science
Energy generation
Micro Power
Vibration
Energy Harvesting
Piezoelectric
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Summary:This paper reviews energy harvesting technology from mechanical vibration. Recent advances on ultralow power portable electronic devices and wireless sensor network require limitless battery life for better performance. People searched for permanent portable power sources for advanced electronic devices. Energy is everywhere around us and the most important part in energy harvesting is energy transducer. Piezoelectric materials have high energy conversion ability from mechanical vibration. A great amount of researches have been conducted to develop simple and efficient energy harvesting devices from vibration by using piezoelectric materials. Representative piezoelectric materials can be categorized into piezoceramics and piezopolymers. This paper reviews key ideas and performances of the reported piezoelectric energy harvesting from vibration. Various types of vibration devices, piezoelectric materials and mathematical modeling of vibrational energy harvestings are reviewed.
ISSN:1229-8557
2005-4602
DOI:10.1007/s12541-011-0151-3