Flexible Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters and Sensors

This book covers the detailed knowledge of the fundamentals, developments discussions in the design and fabrication of energy harvesting, sensing and their corresponding applications.

Dr. Bin Yang is an associate professor of the Department of Micro/Nano Electronics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, 2006. He was a Research Fellow with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the National University of Singapore and Senior Search Engineer with the Institute of Microelectronics, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore from 2007 to 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Senior Research and Development Engineer with the AAC Acoustic Technologies Company, Ltd., Singapore. His research interests include micro/nano energy harvesting, piezoelectric actuators and sensors.

Dr. Zhiran Yi is a Postdoctoral fellow in The State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his M.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree at the National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Nano/Micro Fabrication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research interests mainly include MEMS/NEMS, piezoelectric energy harvesting, self-powered devices for WSN or IOT and wearable/implantable sensors for healthcare monitoring.

Dr. Chengkuo Lee worked as a Foreign Researcher in the Nanometer scale Manufacturing Science Laboratory of the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, from 1993 to 1996. Thereafter, he became a Senior Research Staff Member of Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan. In 1997, he joined Metrodyne Microsystem Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and established the MEMS device division and as the Manager between 1997 and 2000. He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Electro-physics Department of National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 1998, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Institute of Precision Engineering of National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, from 2001 to 2005. In August 2001, he cofounded Asia Pacific Microsystems, Inc., where he first became Vice President of R&D. From 2006 to 2009, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Institute of Microelectronics, A-Star, Singapore. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, since December 2005.

Chapter 1 Introduction (Background of flexible EHs and sensors)
Chapter 2 Design methods of flexible substrate piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs)
Chapter 3 Fabrication of flexible piezoelectric EH
Chapter 4 Nonlinear flexible PEH
Chapter 5 Rotation-driven flexible PEH
Chapter 6 Wearable flexible PEH
Chapter 7 Implantable flexible PEH
Chapter 8 Flexible tactile sensors
Chapter 9 Artificial intelligence algorithm for flexible sensors
Chapter 10 Conclusion and Future Perspective