Journal
NANO ENERGY
Volume 68, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2019.104272
Keywords
Piezoelectric nanogenerators; Triboelectric nanogenerators; Maxwell's equations; Displacement current
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Funding
- National Key R&D Project from Minister of Science and Technology [2016YFA0202704]
- Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission [Z171100002017017]
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Nanogenerators (NGs) are a field that uses Maxwell's displacement current as the driving force for effectively converting mechanical energy into electric power/signal, which have broad applications in energy science, environmental protection, wearable electronics, self-powered sensors, medical science, robotics and artificial intelligence. NGs are usually based on three effects: piezoelectricity, triboelectricity (contact electrification), and pyroelectricity. In this paper, a formal theory for NGs is presented starting from Maxwell's equations. Besides the general expression for displacement vector D = epsilon E used for deriving classical electromagnetic dynamics, we added an additional term P-s in D, which represents the polarization created by the electrostatic surface charges owing to piezoelectricity and/or triboelectricity as a result of mechanical triggering in NG. In contrast to P that is resulted from the electric field induced medium polarization and vanishes if E = 0, P-s remains even when there is no external electric field. We reformulated the Maxwell equations that include both the medium polarizations due to electric field (P) and non-electric field (such as strain) (P-s) induced polarization terms, from which, the output power, electromagnetic behavior and current transport equation for a NG are systematically derived. A general solution is presented for the modified Maxwell equations, and analytical solutions about the output potential are provided for a few cases. The displacement current arising from epsilon partial derivative E/partial derivative t is responsible for the electromagnetic waves, while the newly added term partial derivative P-s/partial derivative t is the application of Maxwell's equations in energy and sensors. This work sets the first principle theory for quantifying the performance and electromagnetic behavior of a nanogenerator in general.
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