@inproceedings{6ae1faf7bf0f46428d7866ed06224aa5,
title = "Airflow-driven rotary electret energy harvester",
abstract = "Harvesting energy from physical resources in the environment is an effective way to solve the micro power issues in micro system. Gas flow as a clear and renewable physical resource has a great potential in the field of micro energy harvester. In this work, we design an efficient rotary electret energy harvester driven by gas flow with a high output power. The key parameters of structure design are analyzed, and the prototype is fabricated using a 3D printing technology. The surface potential of electret on the rotor structure is up to 1000 V by a classic corona charging method. Our designed energy harvester could be driven by a low air flow speed of 2.5 m/s. The output voltage of 17 V and output power of 3.6 μW are obtained with external resistance of 10 MΩ at the speed of 3 m/s, which corresponds to a rotation speed of 300 rpm.",
keywords = "electret, electrostatic, energy harvester, gas flow",
author = "Yue Feng and Xinzhao Zhang and Yanhui Han and Zejie Yu and Wenzhong Lou",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.; 12th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2017 ; Conference date: 09-04-2017 Through 12-04-2017",
year = "2017",
month = aug,
day = "25",
doi = "10.1109/NEMS.2017.8017020",
language = "English",
series = "2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2017",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "260--263",
booktitle = "2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2017",
address = "United States",
}
