Energy Harvesting

Research : Smart Devices : Discrete Devices : Energy Harvesting

Energy Harvesting

Miniaturized windmill for powering unattended sensors.

Design and prototyping of a miniature vibration energy harvester.

Objective:

Self powered sensor networks with focus on industrial health monitoring, aircraft structural health monitoring, perimeter security nets and border intrusion monitoring. Goal is to reach the power density of 2mW/cm².

Approach:

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Accomplishments:

Build several prototypes to harvest the vibration and wind energy. Pictures below show the prototypes of the piezoelectric windmill and vibration generator. Our current work includes the design of energy harvesting chips, consisting of 3D layers containing multiple types of energy capturing technologies.

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The prototyping of a multi-energy input, 3D harvester is in progress.

Publications:

[1]	Rashed Adnan Islam and Shashank Priya, "Enhanced Magnetoelectric Effect in (1 − x) Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3-x NiFe1.9Mn0.1O4 Particulate Composites—Electrical and Magnetic Properties", Integrated Ferroelectrics, Volume 82, Number 1 / 2006, pp. 1 – 24.
[2]	Kim H, Priya S, Uchino K, "Modeling of piezoelectric energy harvesting using cymbal transducers", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 1-Regular Papers Brief Communications & Review Papers 45 (7): 5836-5840, Jul 2006.
[3]	Chen CT, Islam RA, Priya S, " Electric energy generator", IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control 53 (3): 656-661, Mar 2006.
[4]	Islam RA, Priya S, "Realization of high-energy density polycrystalline piezoelectric ceramics", Applied Physics Letters 88 (3): Art. No. 032903, Jan 16 2006.
[5]	Priya S, Ahn CW, Nahm S, " Dielectric Properties of (Ba-0.6 Sr-0.4)(Cu-1/3 Nb-2/3)O-3 system", Ferroelectrics, 322: 75-82 2005.
[6]	Priya S, "Modeling of electric energy harvesting using piezoelectric windmill", Applied Physics Letters 87 (18): Art. No. 184101, Oct 31 2005.
[7]	Kim HW, Priya S, Uchino K, et al,. "Piezoelectric energy harvesting under high pre-stressed cyclic vibrations", Journal of Electroceramics 15 (1): 27-34, Sep 2005.
[8]	Priya S, Chen CT, Fye D, et al., "Piezoelectric windmill: A novel solution to remote sensing", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics Part 2-Letters & Express Letters 44 (1-7): L104-L107, 2005.