Thermal energy harvesters with piezoelectric or electrostatic transducer

Piotr Prokaryn; Krzysztof Domański; Michał Marchewka; Daniel Tomaszewski; Piotr Grabiec; Onoriu Puscasu; Stéphane Monfray; Thomas Skotnicki

doi:10.1117/12.2070512

19 August 2014 Thermal energy harvesters with piezoelectric or electrostatic transducer

Piotr Prokaryn, Krzysztof Domański, Michał Marchewka, Daniel Tomaszewski, Piotr Grabiec, Onoriu Puscasu, Stéphane Monfray, Thomas Skotnicki

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Proceedings Volume 9291, 13th International Scientific Conference on Optical Sensors and Electronic Sensors; 92910E (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070512
Event: 13th International Scientific Conference on Optical Sensors and Electronic Sensors, 2014, Lodz, Poland

Abstract

This paper describes the idea of the energy harvester which converts thermal gradient present in environment into electricity. Two kinds of such devices are proposed and their prototypes are shown and discussed. The main parts of harvesters are bimetallic spring, piezoelectric transducer or electrostatic transducer with electret. The applied piezomembrane was commercial available product but electrets was made by authors. In the paper a fabrication procedure of electrets formed by the corona discharge process is described. Devices were compared in terms of generated power, charging current, and the voltage across a storage capacitor.

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Piotr Prokaryn, Krzysztof Domański, Michał Marchewka, Daniel Tomaszewski, Piotr Grabiec, Onoriu Puscasu, Stéphane Monfray, and Thomas Skotnicki "Thermal energy harvesters with piezoelectric or electrostatic transducer", Proc. SPIE 9291, 13th International Scientific Conference on Optical Sensors and Electronic Sensors, 92910E (19 August 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2070512

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