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Various studies have shown that energy harvesting using piezoelectric material is a promising path opened to more opportunities for future applications. This study is mainly focused on the comparison between bimorph and unimorph cantilever transducer with three parameters taken into consideration, which are the weight of proof mass, types of piezoelectric material used and the dimension of both the cantilever transducer. For the bimorph transducer, various investigated results show that it is able to generate a maximum output voltage of 14.66 V and 1.07 mW electrical power at natural frequency 114 Hz. On the other hand, the unimorph transducer is able to generate a maximum output voltage of 12.81 V and 0.82 mW electrical power at natural frequency 139 Hz. Hence, both designs are proposed to use as an energy harvester device.
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This work was supported by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia through the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme under Proj-FRGS/1/2019/TK04/UCSI/02/1.
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A/L Sarbjeet Singh, S.S., Tiang, S.S., Lim, W.H., Teng, K.H., Wong, C.H. (2022). Simulation Studies on Bimorph and Unimorph PZT Piezoelectric Transducer for Energy Harvesting Application. In: Khairuddin, I.M., et al. Enabling Industry 4.0 through Advances in Mechatronics. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 900. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2095-0_26
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