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AIP ADVANCES
Volume 7, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4974310
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) in the UK [EP/K020331/1]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K020331/1, EP/K017950/2] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/K020331/1, EP/K017950/2] Funding Source: UKRI
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This letter presents a piezoelectric bimorph with auxetic (negative Poisson's ratio) behaviors for increased power output in vibration energy harvesting. The piezoelectric bimorph comprises a 2D auxetic substrate sandwiched between two piezoelectric layers. The auxetic substrate is capable of introducing auxetic behaviors and thus increasing the transverse stress in the piezoelectric layers when the bimorph is subjected to a longitudinal stretching load. As a result, both 31- and 32-modes are simultaneously exploited to generate electric power, leading to an increased power output. The increasing power output principle was theoretically analyzed and verified by finite element (FE) modelling. The FE modelling results showed that the auxetic substrate can increase the transverse stress of a bimorph by 16.7 times. The average power generated by the auxetic bimorph is 2.76 times of that generated by a conventional bimorph. (C) 2017 Author(s).
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