APL Materials (Apr 2014)

Anisotropic self-biased dual-phase low frequency magneto-mechano-electric energy harvesters with giant power densities

  • Deepak Rajaram Patil,
  • Yuan Zhou,
  • Ju-Eun Kang,
  • Nathan Sharpes,
  • Dae-Yong Jeong,
  • Yang-Do Kim,
  • Kee Hoon Kim,
  • Shashank Priya,
  • Jungho Ryu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4870116
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 4
pp. 046102 – 046102-8

Abstract

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We report the physical behavior of self-biased multi-functional magneto-mechano-electric (MME) laminates simultaneously excited by magnetic and/or mechanical vibrations. The MME laminates composed of Ni and single crystal fiber composite exhibited strong ME coupling under Hdc = 0 Oe at both low frequency and at resonance frequency. Depending on the magnetic field direction with respect to the crystal orientation, the energy harvester showed strong in-plane anisotropy in the output voltage and was found to generate open circuit output voltage of 20 Vpp and power density of 59.78 mW/Oe2 g2 cm3 under weak magnetic field of 1 Oe and mechanical vibration of 30 mg, at frequency of 21 Hz across 1 MΩ resistance.