A review of acoustic impedance matching techniques for piezoelectric sensors and transducers

VT Rathod - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
The coupling of waves between the piezoelectric generators, detectors, and propagating
media is challenging due to mismatch in the acoustic properties. The mismatch leads to the …

Piezoelectric polymeric foams as flexible energy harvesters: a review

MA Ansari, P Somdee - Advanced Energy and Sustainability …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric energy harvesters (PEHs) have the potential to power low‐power electronic
devices and can advance, self‐powered, autonomous electronics to the next level …

Human pulse diagnosis for medical assessments using a wearable piezoelectret sensing system

Y Chu, J Zhong, H Liu, Y Ma, N Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Real‐time and continuous monitoring of physiological signals is essential for mobile health,
which is becoming a popular tool for efficient and convenient medical services. Here, an …

Ferroelectret nanogenerator with large transverse piezoelectric activity

X Zhang, P Pondrom, GM Sessler, X Ma - Nano energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Energy harvesting from vibrations enables power delivery to low-energy electronics for
autonomous devices, wearables, as well as wireless and remote sensing. Here we present …

Direct 3D printing of piezoelectrets: process feasibility, prototypes fabrication and device performance

X Wang, Z Liu, H Wang, C Zeng - Engineered Science, 2022 - espublisher.com
Piezoelectrets (or piezoelectric polymer foams) are porous piezoelectric materials with a
wide range of applications particularly sensing. They have been successfully fabricated …

Template-based fluoroethylenepropylene piezoelectrets with tubular channels for transducer applications

RAP Altafim, X Qiu, W Wirges, R Gerhard… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
We describe the concept, the fabrication, and the most relevant properties of a piezoelectric-
polymer system: Two fluoroethylenepropylene (FEP) films with good electret properties are …

[HTML][HTML] Patterned piezo-, pyro-, and ferroelectricity of poled polymer electrets

X Qiu - Journal of Applied physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
Polymers with strong piezo-, pyro-, and ferroelectricity are attractive for a wide range of
applications. In particular, semicrystalline ferroelectric polymers are suitable for a large …

Preparation and characterization of piezoelectric foams based on cyclic olefin copolymer

H Wang, Y Li, X Wang, Z Liu, MF Ahmed… - Engineered …, 2021 - espublisher.com
A series of cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) based piezoelectrets are fabricated using a carbon
dioxide assisted assembly process followed by direct contact charging. The effects of both …

Cellular polymer ferroelectret: a review on their development and their piezoelectric properties

A Mohebbi, F Mighri, A Ajji… - Advances in Polymer …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Because of their ability to show ferroelectret behavior when exposed to an external electric
field, cellular polymers have been recently considered for ferroelectret applications. These …

Fluoroethylenepropylene ferroelectret films with cross-tunnel structure for piezoelectric transducers and micro energy harvesters

X Zhang, GM Sessler, Y Wang - Journal of applied physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Layered fluoroethylenepropylene (FEP) ferroelectret films with cross-tunnel structure were
fabricated from sheets of FEP films by template-patterning followed by a fusion-bonding …