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A New Vibration Energy Harvester Using Magnetoelectric Transducer

Journal of Magnetics, Volume 16, Number 2, 30 Jun 2011, Pages 150-156
Jin Yang * (College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University), Yumei Wen (College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University), Ping Li (College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University), Xianzhi Dai (College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University), Ming Li (College of Optoelectronic Engineering, Chongqing University)
Abstract

Magnetoelectric (ME) transducers were originally intended for magnetic field sensors but have recently been used in vibration energy harvesting. In this paper, a new broadband vibration energy harvester has been designed and fabricated to be efficiently applicable over a range of source frequencies, which consists of two cantilever beams, two magnetoelectric (ME) transducers and a magnetic circuit. The effects of the structure parameters, such as the non-linear magnetic forces of the ME transducers and the magnetic field distribution of the magnetic circuit, are analyzed for achieving the optimal vibration energy harvesting performances. A prototype is fabricated and tested, and the experimental results on the performances show that the harvester has bandwidths of 5.6 Hz, and a maximum power of 0.25 mW under an acceleration of 0.2 g (with g = 9.8 ms2).

 

Keywords: broadband vibration energy harvesting; multi-cantilever beams; magnetoelectric transducer; magnetic force
DOI: 10.4283/JMAG.2011.16.2.150
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