Piezoelectric Nanogenerators for Micro-Energy and Self-Powered Sensors, Volume II

A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "A:Physics".

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Special Issue Editors

National School of Engineering in Tarbes (ENIT), National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT), University of Toulouse, 65000 Tarbes, France
Interests: mechatronics and micromechatronics; robotics and microrobotics; smart materials based systems; piezoelecticity and piezoelectric systems; actuators and microactuators; miniaturized sensors; modeling; control; estimation; observers; identification
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Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Xidian University, Xi’an 710126, China
Interests: nanogenerator; piezotronics; piezoelectric; sensor; ferroelectric
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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0245, USA
Interests: piezoelectric/triboelectric nanogenerators; triboelectric mechanisms and piezoelectric (photo)electronics; other applied fundamentals; functional devices; integrated systems research
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Energy harvesting consists of scavenging energy from the surrounding environment knowing that this energy would be “lost” if not scavenged. To scavenge small-scale kinetic energy, the use of a piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) is one of the most studied and developed approaches. It is based on the exploitation of the direct piezoelectric effect to transform the ambient kinetic energy—mostly vibrational—into electrical energy. Whilst the term PENG was initially introduced when referring to ZnO nanowires being used as materials to scavenge such small-scale energy, the word nowadays refers to piezoelectric energy harvesting more generally, whether standard materials (e.g., PZT, AlN) or novel materials (e.g., nanowires) are employed. Indeed, the driving mechanism of PENG is Maxwell’s displacement current. Potential applications of PENG are numerous as it allows self-powered and autonomous nano-, micro-, mini-, or meso-scaled devices, for example, implantable electronics in biomedical applications, geotracers and animal tracking devices, wearable devices, multifunctional shoes, tires monitoring sensors, autonomous sensors in automotives, building monitoring sensors, and self-powered vibration damping devices in structures. Nowadays, we are witnessing a variety of attractive approaches in the emerging research and development for increasingly more efficient PENGs with more diversified applications. This Special Issue aims to present a collection of articles, including review papers, that cover the recent research and development on PENG techniques as well as their applications. Collectively, the papers in this issue will address fundamental, technological, and application aspects.

Prof. Dr. Micky Rakotondrabe
Prof. Dr. Rusen Yang
Prof. Dr. Zhong Lin Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • vibrational PENG
  • hybrid PENG
  • new piezoelectric materials for PENG
  • structure optimization in PENG
  • electrical circuits in PENG
  • multidirectional PENG
  • multifrequency PENG
  • broadband PENG
  • modeling in PENG
  • applications of PENG

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