A comprehensive review on piezoelectric energy harvesting technology: Materials, mechanisms, and applications

By Huicong Liu, Junwen Zhong, Chengkuo Lee, Seung-Wuk Lee, Liwei Lin. Applied Physics Reviews, 2018

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The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in applications, such as wireless sensing, data transmission, actuation, and medical implants. Piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) has been a salient topic in the literature and has attracted widespread attention from researchers due to its advantages of simple architecture, high power density, and good scalability. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art of piezoelectric energy harvesting. Various key aspects to improve the overall performance of a PEH device are discussed, including basic fundamentals and configurations, materials and fabrication, performance enhancement mechanisms, applications, and future outlooks.The last decade has witnessed significant advances in energy harvesting technologies as a possible alternative to provide a continuous power supply for small, low-power devices in applications, such as wireless sensing, data transmission, actuation, and medical implants. Piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) has been a salient topic in the literature and has attracted widespread attention from researchers due to its advantages of simple architecture, high power density, and good scalability. This paper presents a comprehensive review on the state-of-the-art of piezoelectric energy harvesting. Various key aspects to improve the overall performance of a PEH device are discussed, including basic fundamentals and configurations, materials and fabrication, performance enhancement mechanisms, applications, and future outlooks.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

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In Biomedical Engineering

1. Xinge Guo
2. Chengkuo Lee
3. Long Liu
4. Tianyiyi He
5. Feng Wen
6. Qiongfeng Shi
7. Bowei Dong
8. Jianxiong Zhu

In Electrical and Electronic Engineering

1. Xinge Guo
2. Long Liu
3. Qiongfeng Shi
4. Chengkuo Lee

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2. Long Liu
3. Qiongfeng Shi
4. Philippe Vachon
5. Feng Wen
6. Yanqin Yang
7. Jianxiong Zhu
8. Bowei Dong

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• Promoting smart cities into the 5G era with multi-field Internet of Things (IoT) applications powered with advanced mechanical energy harvesters (2021, background): “Piezoelectric products have been widely applied in the production and detection of sound, high voltage and power sources, microbalances, and actuators [158,167 – 169].”
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