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The challenge of continuously powering the wireless sensor network located at remote areas has been resolved by the emergence of piezoelectric energy harvester. This paper evolved a new idea of using different piezoelectric materials together within segmented doubly clamped bimorph piezoelectric energy harvester (DCBPEH). The finite element modeling of the device has been presented here using COMSOL multiphysics software. This paper starts with concept of strain nodes and further better performance of segmented electrodes-based beam over the continuous electrode-based beam has been achieved. Next, a performance analysis study with continuous electrode-based beam has been carried out for different variants of two piezoelectric materials, namely, PMN-xPT and PZT. From this study, PMN-35%PT and PZT-5H piezoelectric materials are found to be best variants. Finally, the performance of segmented DCBPEH has been observed for different positioning formats of PMN-35%PT (M1) and PZT-5H (M2) piezoelectric materials on different segments of the beam. From this analysis, M1–M1–M2 and M2–M1–M1 are noted to be two favorable positioning formats which provide similar and maximum performance (7.78 mW) as compared to other formats.
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Saxena, S., Dwivedi, R.K. & Khare, V. Multi-piezoelectric materials based doubly clamped energy harvester. J Mater Sci: Mater Electron 31, 6998–7011 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10854-020-03266-1
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