Dielectric Elastomer Generators: How Much Energy Can Be Converted?

By Soo Jin Adrian Koh, Christoph Keplinger, Tiefeng Li, Siegfried Bauer, Zhigang Suo. IEEE/ASME transactions on mechatronics, 2011

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering

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Impedance Modeling and Analysis for Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Systems (2012, background): “On the other hand, the maximum obtainable power is a common concern for different energy harvesting systems [17], [18].”
Theory of dielectric elastomers (2010, background): “This stress is known as the Maxwell stress.”
Increasing the performance of dielectric elastomer actuators: A review from the materials perspective (2015, background): “different energy harvesting cycles [64-66], constant charge, constant voltage, or constant field, being the first cycle the easiest to implement (Figure 4).”
From boots to buoys: promises and challenges of dielectric elastomer energy harvesting (2011, neutral): “Koh et al.6 have rigorously modeled the electromechanics of this interaction for the simplified case of uniform biaxial stretching of an incompressible polymer film including many important effects such as the nonlinear stiffness behavior of the polymer film and the variation in breakdown field with”
Giant voltage-induced deformation in dielectric elastomers near the verge of snap-through instability (2013, methodology): “The experimental data are fit to the form Koh et al. (2011a): EEB ¼ 30:6l1:13 MV=m, for lo5:7 218 MV=m, for l45:7 ( ð8Þ the experiments were carried out for membranes under equal-biaxial stretch l.”
Soft robots based on dielectric elastomer actuators: a review (2019, background): “Koh, et al [71] conducted a range of experiments at different stretches, and by fitting the experimental data obtained a relationship between the dielectric breakdown strength and the stretch.”
Stretch dependence of the electrical breakdown strength and dielectric constant of dielectric elastomers (2013, methodology): “The amount of mechanical energy converted to electrical energy rises with the absolute capacitance as well as with the relative change of capacitance [6].”