Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters

Download or read book Design, Fabrication, and Testing of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters written by Ashok K. Batra and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Spotlight describes the configurations and performance optimization of piezoelectric energy harvesters. It presents in detail all of the relevant parameters to test the performance of piezoelectric and pyroelectric energy harvesters, including the latest measurement techniques. The specifications of state-of-the-art instruments are included. The text serves as a step-by-step instruction manual that will help readers to set up their own laboratory to design, characterize, and analyze the performance of energy harvesters. LabVIEW software is utilized to control instruments and acquire data from a piezoelectric energy harvester test station.