TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluation of the pore morphologies for piezoelectric energy harvesting application
AU - Yan, Mingyang
AU - Liu, Shengwen
AU - Xiao, Zhida
AU - Yuan, Xi
AU - Zhai, Di
AU - Zhou, Kechao
AU - Zhang, Dou
AU - Zhang, Guodong
AU - Bowen, Chris
AU - Zhang, Yan
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. U19A2087 ), Key Research and Development Project of Hunan Province (No. 2020WK2004 ), Special Funding Support for the Construction of Innovative Provinces in Hunan Province of China (No. 2020GK2062 ), Overseas Talent Introduction Project of China, Hundred Youth Talents Program of Hunan and State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy, Central South University , Changsha, China, The Leverhulme Trust ( RGP-2018-290 ).
PY - 2021/11/7
Y1 - 2021/11/7
N2 - Piezoelectric energy harvesting has attracted significant attention in recent years due to their high-power density and potential applications for self-powered sensor networks. In comparison to dense piezoelectric ceramics, porous piezoelectric ceramics exhibit superiority due to an enhancement of piezoelectric energy harvesting figure of merit. This paper provides a detailed examination of the effect of pore morphology on the piezoelectric energy harvesting performance of porous barium calcium zirconate titanate 0.5Ba(Zr0.2 Ti0.8)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT) ceramics. Three different pore morphologies of spherical, elliptical, and aligned lamellar pores were created via the burnt-out polymer spheres method and freeze casting. The relative permittivity decreased with increasing porosity volume fraction for all porous BCZT ceramics. Both experimental and simulation results demonstrate that porous BCZT ceramics with aligned lamellar pores exhibit a higher remanent polarization. The longitudinal d33 piezoelectric charge coefficient decreased with increasing porosity volume fraction for the porous ceramics with three different pore morphologies; however, the rate of decrease in d33 with porosity is slower for aligned lamellar pores, leading to the highest piezoelectric energy harvesting figure of merit. Moreover, the peak power density of porous BCZT ceramics with aligned lamellar pores is shown to reach up to 38 μW cm-2 when used as an energy harvester, which is significantly higher than that of porous BCZT ceramics with spherical or elliptical pores. This work is beneficial for the design and manufacture of porous ferroelectric materials in devices for piezoelectric energy harvesting applications.
AB - Piezoelectric energy harvesting has attracted significant attention in recent years due to their high-power density and potential applications for self-powered sensor networks. In comparison to dense piezoelectric ceramics, porous piezoelectric ceramics exhibit superiority due to an enhancement of piezoelectric energy harvesting figure of merit. This paper provides a detailed examination of the effect of pore morphology on the piezoelectric energy harvesting performance of porous barium calcium zirconate titanate 0.5Ba(Zr0.2 Ti0.8)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT) ceramics. Three different pore morphologies of spherical, elliptical, and aligned lamellar pores were created via the burnt-out polymer spheres method and freeze casting. The relative permittivity decreased with increasing porosity volume fraction for all porous BCZT ceramics. Both experimental and simulation results demonstrate that porous BCZT ceramics with aligned lamellar pores exhibit a higher remanent polarization. The longitudinal d33 piezoelectric charge coefficient decreased with increasing porosity volume fraction for the porous ceramics with three different pore morphologies; however, the rate of decrease in d33 with porosity is slower for aligned lamellar pores, leading to the highest piezoelectric energy harvesting figure of merit. Moreover, the peak power density of porous BCZT ceramics with aligned lamellar pores is shown to reach up to 38 μW cm-2 when used as an energy harvester, which is significantly higher than that of porous BCZT ceramics with spherical or elliptical pores. This work is beneficial for the design and manufacture of porous ferroelectric materials in devices for piezoelectric energy harvesting applications.
KW - Energy harvesting
KW - Pore morphology
KW - Porosity
KW - Porous BCZT ceramics
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ceramint.2021.11.039
DO - 10.1016/j.ceramint.2021.11.039
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118832986
JO - Ceramics International
JF - Ceramics International
SN - 0272-8842
ER -