Article Title
High power triboelectric nanogenerator based on printed circuit board (PCB) technology
Keywords
triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG), printed circuit board (PCB), output power, transformer
Abstract
Harvesting mechanical energy from our surroundings to acquire a steady and high power output has attracted intensive interest due to the fast development of portable electronics. In this work, the disk-structured triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) was prepared based on the mature printed circuit board (PCB) technology and the composite structure for effectively improving the utilization in space. A narrow grating of 1° was designed to produce high output. Operated at a rotation rate of 1,000 rpm, the TENG produces a high output power density of 267 mW/cm2 (total power output of 25.7 W) at a matched load of 0.93 MΩ. After introducing a transformer, the output power can be managed so that it can be directly used to charge a battery for a smart phone. With the PCB production technology, fabrication of high performance TENG at low cost and large-scale becomes feasible.
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Publisher
Tsinghua University Press
Recommended Citation
Changbao Han,Chi Zhang,Wei Tang,Xiaohui Li,Zhong Lin Wang, High power triboelectric nanogenerator based on printed circuit board (PCB) technology. NanoRes.2015, 8(3): 722–730