Recently, composite-type nanogenerators (NGs) formed from piezoelectric nanostructures and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs), have become one of the excellent candidates for future energy harvesting because of their ability to apply the excellent electrical and mechanical properties of CNTs. However, the synthesis of NG devices with a high proportion of piezoelectric materials and a low poly...

The concept is to capture the normally lost energy surrounding a system and converting it into electrical energy that can be used to extend the lifetime of that system’s power supply or possibly provide an endless supply of energy to an electronic device which has led to power harvesting. One of the most interesting methods of obtaining the energy surrounding a system is to use piezoelectric ma...

The relaxor based ferroelectric (1-x)Pb(Zn(1/3)Nb(2/3))O(3)-xPbTiO(3) and (1-x)Pb(Mg(1/3)Nb(2/3))O(3)-xPbTiO(3) single crystals provided new challenges in property characterization because their extraordinarily large piezoelectric coefficients and electromechanical coupling coefficients. Large errors may occur in some of the derived material constants using conventional characterization techniq...

This paper researches the dedicated piezoelectric sensor for airflow information sensitivity which uses PZT-5A piezoelectric material and rigid polyurethane foam to act as its matching materials. It adopts multiplex mode to realize the broadband design of sensor and does finite element simulation to establish admittance grid, sound field distribution diagram and model in which cylinder is added...

Modeling the complex characteristic acoustic impedance and complex wavenumber of porous materials allows the prediction of the complex specific acoustic impedance of a system consisting of porous absorbers and air cavities in front of a rigid surface. By using the transfer matrix method, the complex characteristic acoustic impedance and complex wavenumber of a porous material can be predicted b...

The mechanisms for micromechanical actuation that are most practical, and have been the most applied, are electrostatic attraction and piezoelectric effect. Both scale well into mirro-dimensions, are relatively compatible with microfabrication processes, and are also suitable for displacement sensing. Of the two, piezoelectric devices are much better able to provide strong forces, and while ele...

A new method to maximize the output power of a piezoelectric energy harvesting system has been previously proposed by the authors. This can be achieved by reducing the mechanical damping through folding a given piezoelectric material equally and splitting it into smaller width. Experimental results have shown that the power harvested increases when the number of fold increases but with the trad...

Axisymmetric vibration of an infinite piezolaminated multilayer hollow cylinder made of piezoelectric layers of 6mm class and an isotropic LEMV Linear Elastic Materials with Voids layers is studied. The frequency equations are obtained for the traction free outer surface with continuity conditions at the interfaces. Numerical results are carried out for the inner, middle, and outer hollow piezo...

The plane-wave-expansion (PWE) approach dedicated to the simulation of periodic devices has been extended to 1-3 connectivity piezoelectric composite structures. The case of simple but actual piezoelectric composite structures is addressed, taking piezoelectricity, acoustic losses, and electrical excitation conditions rigorously into account. The material distribution is represented by using a ...

A piezoelectric voltage coupled microwave reentrant cavity has been developed. The central cavity post is bonded to a piezoelectric actuator allowing the voltage control of small post displacements over a high dynamic range. We show that such a cavity can be implemented as a voltage tunable resonator, a transducer for exciting and measuring mechanical modes of the structure, and a transducer fo...