Abstract

Piezoelectric nanowires have attracted great interest as new building blocks of mechanical energy harvesting systems. This paper presents the design improvements of mechanical energy harvesters integrating vertical ZnO piezoelectric nanowires onto a Silicon or plastic membrane. We have calculated the energy generation and conversion performance of ZnO nanowires based vertical integrated nanogenerators in flexion mode. We show that in flexion mode ZnO nanowires are superior to bulk ZnO layer. Both mechanical and electrical effects of matrix materials on the potential generation and energy conversion are discussed, in the aim of guiding further improvement of nanogenerator performance.

Details

Title
Evaluation of Vertical Integrated Nanogenerator Performances in Flexion
Author
Hinchet, R 1 ; Ardila, G 1 ; Mouis, M 1 

 IMEP-LAHC, Grenoble-INP, University J. Fourier, University Savoie, CNRS, 3 Parvis L. Néel BP 257, 38016, Grenoble, France 
Publication year
2013
Publication date
Dec 2013
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2577587054
Copyright
© 2013. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.