Original Article | 2013, Vol.35, No.5, pp. 605-610
Experimental assessment of polyvinyledene fluoride coupled through standard approach for vibration-energy harvesting
Prissana Rakbamrung and Nantakan Muensit
pp. 605 - 610
Abstract
This work presented the experimental analysis which focused on the realization of active volume within a crystalline phase of semi-crystalline PVDF samples on energy harvesting efficiency. The transformation of mechanical into electrical energy was performed by PVDF connected directly in series to a standard interface circuit. This work investigated both commercial and synthesized PVDF. The maximum power of 2.6 mW was measured across the matching load of 1 M at 70 Hz exciting frequency from commercial PVDF of 28 mm thickness. A decrease in power was observed when the sample thickness increased. Generated power of prepared- and commercial-PVDF, however, were almost the same for the thickness of about 50 mm with an active area of 4 cm2 .
