A super-flexible and lightweight membrane for energy harvesting

Author

Mengdi Han ; Bocheng Yu ; Xiaoliang Cheng ; Bo Meng ; Haixia Zhang

Author_Institution

Nat. Key Lab. of Sci. & Technol. on Micro/Nano Fabrication, Peking Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2015

fDate

21-25 June 2015

Firstpage

55

Lastpage

58

Abstract

This paper presents a super-flexible and lightweight membrane for energy harvesting. Based on the combined effect of contact electrification and electrostatic induction, a triboelectric energy harvester (TEH) was designed, simulated, fabricated, and tested. Thanks to the specially designed structure and electrode pattern, this super-flexible TEH can produce root mean square (RMS) voltage of 33.8 V and average power of 40.7 μW. Moreover, this membrane is capable of harvesting multi-type mechanical energy, including different motion styles and various contacted materials.

Keywords

energy harvesting; least mean squares methods; membranes; static electrification; triboelectricity; RMS voltage; TEH; contact electrification; electrostatic induction; energy harvesting; lightweight membrane; root mean square voltage; super-flexible membrane; triboelectric energy harvester; Electric potential; Electrodes; Energy harvesting; Fabrication; Gold; Performance evaluation; Silicon; Energy harvesting; contact electrification; flexible; triboelectric;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS), 2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7180859

Filename

7180859