Energy Harvesting with Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Materials

978-0-87849-159-9

Nantakan Muensit

234

2011

softcover

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Review from Book News Inc.: Physicists and materials scientists from Europe, North America, and Thailand review the current state of harvesting energy using piezoelectric and pyroelectric materials in a manner intended to inform students, researchers, and engineers working in energy conservation or renewable energy. For the benefit of non-specialists, they begin by setting out fundamentals, among them the energy harvesting materials, electromechanical models for energy harvesting systems, vibration theory and the design of piezoelectric energy harvesting structures, energy flow analysis, and conversion enhancement. Then they present case studies of smart miniaturized systems, a low frequency power source, spinning waste heat into high voltage electricity, and energy harvesting products and forecast. There is no index.