Abstract

Designing piezoceramics with a large transduction coefficient (d33×g33) is key to improving the power generation of piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs). However, in popular PEH materials such as Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O3-Pb(Zr1/2Ti1/2)O3 (PZN-PZT), the same trend in the variation of d33 and εr makes it difficult to achieve a large d33 × g33. In this work, we introduced low-εr Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3 (PIN) into the PZN-PZT matrix to pull down the εr of the quaternary system. This simultaneously stabilized d33 in a certain range due to the refinement of the domain structure and increased the electrostrictive coefficient (Q33), and consequently the d33 × g33 value increased to 16081 × 10−15 m2/N for the optimal composition. We assembled a cantilever beam type PEH from the preferred material with a power density up to 3.37 μW/mm3 at 1 g acceleration, and demonstrated its use to charge an electrolytic capacitor to drive commercial blue LEDs and a speed sensor.

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