AIP Advances (May 2018)

Fabrication and characterization of a piezoelectric energy harvester with clamped-clamped beams

  • Yan Cui,
  • Menglin Yu,
  • Shiqiao Gao,
  • Xiangxin Kong,
  • Wang Gu,
  • Ran Zhang,
  • Bowen Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5023824
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 5
pp. 055028 – 055028-5

Abstract

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This work presents a piezoelectric energy harvester with clamped-clamped beams, and it is fabricated with MEMS process. When excited by sinusoidal vibration, the energy harvester has a sharp jumping down phenomenon and the measured frequency responses of the clamped-clamped beams structure show a larger bandwidth which is about 56Hz, more efficient than that with cantilever beams. When the exciting acceleration ac is 12m/s2, the energy harvester achieves to a maximum open-circuit voltage of 94mV on one beam. The load voltage is proportional to the load resistance, and it increased with the increase of load resistance. Connected four beams in series, the output power reaches the maximum value of 730 nW and the optimal load is 15KΩ to one beam.