ZnO-nanowires based power generation from low frequency vibration

Author

Huicong Liu ; Gulda, Sudeep ; Chengkuo Lee ; Zhan Yang ; Pengbo Wang ; Tao Chen ; Lining Sun

Author_Institution

Jiangsu Provincial Key Lab. of Adv. Robot. & Collaborative Innovation Center of Suzhou Nano Sci. & Technol., Soochow Univ., Suzhou, China

fYear

2015

fDate

7-11 April 2015

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

228

Abstract

This paper presents the fabrication and test of a low-frequency ZnO-Nanowires (NWs) based energy harvesting device. The vertically aligned ZnO NWs are grown by hydrothermal method of low temperature and low cost. A flexible PDMS cantilever of low resonance is employed to be the mechanical vibration carrier of a top electrode. The periodic impact between the top electrode and a bottom ZnO NWs substrate is introduced by the PDMS cantilever. The impact-induced bending of the NWs produces a maximum output rms voltage of 4.8 mV at the resonant frequency of 39.2 Hz and the acceleration of 2.5g. The design has demonstrated wide bandwidth characteristics. The full width at half maximum (FWHM) increases from 16.8 Hz to 20.5 Hz as the acceleration increases from 1g to 2.5g.

Keywords

bending; cantilevers; electrochemical electrodes; energy harvesting; nanowires; vibrations; zinc compounds; FWHM; Polydimethylsiloxane; ZnO; ZnO NW substrate; ZnO-nanowire based power generation; electrode; flexible PDMS cantilever; full width at half maximum; hydrothermal method; low frequency mechanical vibration; low-frequency ZnO-nanowire based energy harvesting device; Arrays; Electrodes; Energy harvesting; II-VI semiconductor materials; Substrates; Vibrations; Zinc oxide; Hydrothermal; low frequency; vibration energy harvesting; zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), 2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEMS.2015.7147415

Filename

7147415