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Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting 2013-2023: Forecasts, Technologies, Players

MEMs, thin films and nanowire: piezoelectric and electroactive polymer energy harvesting opportunities

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Piezoelectric energy harvesters generate electricity depending on the amount of force used in compressing or deforming the material, the amount and type of deformation of the material's crystal structure and the speed or frequency of compressions or vibrations to the material. There are more than 200 appropriate materials which need careful selection for the particular application.
 
This report is the first to assess the progress, applications, players, challenges and forecasts of piezoelectric energy harvesters. Many companies are developing piezoelectric energy harvesters to power consumer electronics, sensors and much more. Already the huge success for this type of energy harvester is in creating the electrical arcs in cigarette lighters, but the future for this technology is much more exciting. Piezoelectric energy harvesters offer among the highest efficiency and power output by size and cost and are therefore very appealing. However, there are also challenges of reliability and broad band performance that need to be addressed.
Covering the exciting new options
This new report from IDTechEx covers the wide range of materials and form factors, from MEMs, to paint and spray versions, to ribbons and nanowires. It profiles the latest work commercially and academically.
Ten year forecasts 2013-2023
The report provides forecasts for piezoelectric energy harvesters for the following application segments. For each, it gives the number of energy harvesting units forecast to be bought, average sales price and the total spend in US $.
  • Pavements, Roads, railroads
  • Lighters and other electrical
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Other industrial Switches
  • Remote Controls
  • Pushbutton industrial sensors
  • Electronic locks/access control devices
  • Toys and gadgets
  • Military
  • Aerospace
  • Vehicle sensors
  • Healthcare
 
Total market value for piezoelectric energy harvesters 2012-2023*
 
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In particular, this report covers;
  • What piezoelectric energy harvesting is and how it works
  • What materials are used and how they are made - including PZT, Single Crystal Piezo and Piezo Fibre Composite
  • Key enablers for the future - printed piezoelectrics, smart substrates, ribbons, fibres and MEMS
  • A comparison between piezoelectric energy harvesting and alternative options
  • How to harvest energy from vibration and movement
  • Applications in consumer electronics, automotive, health, WSN, lighting and switching
  • Detailed market forecasts for 2013-2023 by application type
  • Technical challenges and how these are being tackled
  • Leading developers of piezo electric energy harvesters
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1.EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1.Energy harvesting options
1.2.Total market value by technology 2023
1.2.Number of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters by Application 2012-2023
1.3.Average unit price of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters by Application 2012-2023
1.4.Total Market Value for Piezoelectric energy harvesters 2012-2023
2.INTRODUCTION TO PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING
2.1.What is piezoelectric energy harvesting?
2.1.Microsensor power budget
2.1.Applications of Piezoelectric and Pyroelectric Materials as Microsources of Energy
2.2.Power requirements of small electronic products including Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and the types of battery employed
2.2.Energy harvesting compared with alternatives
2.2.How piezoelectricity works
2.3.How piezoelectric materials are made
2.3.Efficiency and potential technology options
2.3.The performance of the favourite energy harvesting technologies. Technologies with no moving parts are shown in red.
2.4.PZT - leading piezoelectric material used today
2.5.Single Crystal Piezo
2.6.Piezo Fibre Composites PFCs and IDEPFC
2.6.1.Piezo and pyroelectric energy sources
2.7.Power requirements of different devices
2.8.Piezoelectric energy harvesting compared with alternatives
3.PIEZOELECTRICS AS AN ENERGY HARVESTER
3.1.Vibration harvesting
3.1.Piezoelectric buckled beams for random vibration energy harvesting
3.1.1.Wideband
3.1.2.Damping
3.1.3.Remote controllers
3.2.Tree-inspired piezoelectric energy harvesting (Georgiatech)
3.2.Movement harvesting options
3.2.1.Application Case Study: Power paving
3.2.2.Application Case Study:: Duke University Harvesting energy from natural motion
3.2.3.Morgan Technical Ceramics: Development of energy-harvesting mat
3.2.4.Princeton Energy harvesting rubber sheets
3.2.5.Application Case Study:: CEA/Leti-Minatec Harnessing vibrations from raindrops
3.2.6.Application Case Study: SolarBionic Vibration harvesting
3.2.7.Application Case Study: CORNELL: Flapping leaf generator for wind energy harvesting
3.3.Power paving
3.4.Development of energy-harvesting mat
3.5.The Testing Apparatus
3.6.The Nanoleaf is made up of a combination of photovoltaic and thermovoltaic materials
3.7.Flapping leaf generator for wind energy harvesting
4.NEW MATERIALS AND FORM FACTORS FOR PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS
4.1.MEMS piezo electric energy harvesting
4.1.Fully autonomous wireless temperature sensor powered by a vibrational energy harvester
4.1.1.MEMs piezoelectric harvester with record power output
4.2.Piezopaint: Flexible Piezoelectric film
4.2.Thin film, printed, spray-on piezoelectric energy harvesters
4.3.Thermal Acoustic Piezo Energy Conversion
4.3.Orest Symco
4.3.1.Turning heat into sound, then electricity
4.4.PZT ribbons for piezoelectricity and stretchability in energy harvesting devices fabricated
4.4.Piezoelectric ribbons and fibres
4.5.Zinc oxide nanowires
4.5.Fibers that are part of the microfiber nanogenerator. The top one is coated with gold
4.6.How pairs of fibers would generate electrical current.
4.6.Piezoelectric graphene
4.7.Optimal shape piezoelectric energy harvesters
4.7.Georgia Institute of Technology piezoelectric nanomaterials
4.8.Penn State University
4.8.Technique for fabricating piezoelectric ferroelectric nanostructures
4.9.Giant piezoelectric effect to improve energy harvesting devices
4.9.Diamond Light Source, the UK's national synchrotron facility
4.10.Self powered piezoelectric sensors are developed by the Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems at VirginiaTech
4.10.Potential for lead-free piezoelectric ceramics
4.11.Electro-active papers
4.11.The EAP context in which the piezoelectric energy harvesters can be applied
4.12.Fabric that can interact with its environment
4.12.Electroactive Polymers and Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Devices
4.13.Piezoelectric fabric that can detect and produce sound
5.APPLICATIONS OF PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS
5.1.Energy harvesting backpack
5.1.Consumer Electronics
5.1.1.Application Case Study: Michigan Tech: Energy harvesting backpack
5.1.2.Piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester for mobile phones from Nokia
5.1.3.Small scale wind turbines
5.2.Energy harvesting for Vehicles
5.2.Alpsroads
5.2.1.Application Case Study: Piezo Power Source for tyre pressure monitoring
5.2.2.Application Case Study: Piezoelectric roads for California
5.2.3.Application Case Study: Energy harvesting for robots
5.3."Piezo Eel"
5.3.Healthcare
5.3.1.Application Case Study: Breakthroughs with sensing in the human body
5.4.Powering Wireless Sensors
5.4.Robotic Bat
5.4.1.Application Case Study: Printing Piezo Energy Harvesters
5.5.PulseSwitch Systems makes piezoelectric wireless switches that do not need a battery
5.5.Switching and Lighting: Piezoelectric Energy harvesting
5.5.1.Application Case Study: PulseSwitch Systems
6.MARKET FORECASTS
6.1.Short term challenges in the energy harvesting market
6.1.Number of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters by Application 2012-2023
6.1.Total market value by technology 2023
6.2.Energy Harvesting Value Chain
6.2.Average unit price of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesters by Application 2012-2023
6.3.Total Market Value for Piezoelectric energy harvesters 2012-2023
7.COMPANY PROFILES
7.1.Advanced Cerametrics
7.1.Arveni piezoelectric batteryless remote control
7.2.Human sensor networks
7.2.Agency for Defense Development
7.3.Algra
7.3.Helicopter vibration harvester
7.4.Bell model 412 helicopter
7.4.Arveni
7.5.Boeing
7.5.Solar-powered wireless G-Link seismic sensor on the Corinth Bridge in Greece.
7.6.Multiple solar-powered nodes monitor strain and vibration at key locations on the Goldstar Bridge over the Thames River in New London, Conn
7.6.Carnegie Mellon University
7.7.Chinese University of Hong Kong
7.7.MicroStrain Wireless sensor and data acquisition system
7.8.Volture vibration harvester
7.8.Fraunhofer IKTS
7.9.Georgia Institute of Technology
7.9.Volture
7.10.PulseSwitch Systems makes piezoelectric wireless switches that do not need a battery
7.10.Holst Centre
7.11.Honeywell
7.11.Transmitter left and implanted receiver right for inductively powered implantable dropped foot stimulator for stroke victims
7.12.IMEC
7.13.Imperial College
7.14.ITT
7.15.Meggitt Sensing Systems
7.16.MicroStrain Inc.
7.17.Midé Technology Corporation
7.18.National Taiwan University,
7.19.NNL - Universita del Salento
7.20.PulseSwitch Systems
7.21.Shanghai Jiao Tong University
7.22.Smart Material Corp.
7.23.Technical University of Ilmenau
7.24.Texas Micropower
7.25.Tokyo Institute of Technology
7.26.Tyndall National Institute
7.27.University of Idaho
7.28.University of Princeton
7.29.Virginia Tech
8.REFERENCES
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A $823.8 million market for piezoelectric energy harvesters within 10 years

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