Electronic Science and Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (3): 16-21.doi: 10.16180/j.cnki.issn1007-7820.2025.03.003

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Research on MFC-Based Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester

HE Yue, YUAN Tianchen(), YANG Jian, SONG Ruigang   

  1. School of Urban Rail Transit,Shanghai University of Engineering Science,Shanghai 201620,China
  • Received:2023-08-08 Revised:2023-09-12 Online:2025-03-15 Published:2025-03-11
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(11802170)

Abstract:

Mechanical vibration is a common form of motion in the environment, and energy harvesting of it can satisfy the power needs of low-power devices such as wireless sensor nodes. Piezoelectric power generation has a good application prospect. In view of the problem that piezoelectric power generation is limited by the lack of piezoelectric materials, this study designs a piezoelectric vibration energy harvester based on MFC (Macro Fiber Composite), which utilizes the large deformation vibration of the circular structure and the good flexibility of MFC to realize the low-frequency vibration energy harvesting. The output performance of the MFC piezoelectric sheet at different positions of the circular ring is investigated, and the results show that the output voltage of the collector reaches the peak value when the angle between the MFC piezoelectric sheet and the guide post is 97°. Through finite element simulation and experimental comparison verification, it is found that the resonance frequency of the collector is 3.8 Hz, and the output voltage of the experimental prototype at resonance is 6.60 V and the power reaches 0.17 mW at 0.3g excitation, which is basically in line with the simulation and experimental results.

Key words: energy harvesting, MFC, frequency domain response, finite element analysis, piezoelectric effect, low frequency resonance, COMSOL, piezoelectric materials

CLC Number: 

  • TN384