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Power generation and shunt damping performance of a single crystal lead magnesium niobate-lead zirconate titanate unimorph: Analysis and experiment

  • A Erturk
  • , DJ Inman

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    Abstract

    This letter investigates the power generation and shunt damping performance of the single crystal piezoelectric ceramic lead magnesium niobate–lead zirconate titanate (PMN-PZT) analytically and experimentally. PMN-PZT is a recently developed interface for energy harvesting and shunt damping with its large piezoelectric constant (−2252 pm/V) and coupling coefficient (0.95) for the transverse piezoelectric mode. A unimorph PMN-PZT cantilever with an aluminum substrate is tested under base excitation and its electromechanical response is predicted with a coupled distributed parameter model. The power generation performance of the device is 138 µW/(g2 cm3) at 1744 Hz, causing 84% tip vibration attenuation due to the resistive shunt damping effect.
    Translated title of the contributionPower generation and shunt damping performance of a single crystal lead magnesium niobate-lead zirconate titanate unimorph: Analysis and experiment
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)224102 - 224105
    Number of pages3
    JournalApplied Physics Letters
    Volume93(22)
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2008

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    Publisher: American Institute of Physics

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