Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage

First book to bring together fundamental mechanisms for harvesting various abundant energy sources such as solar, wind and mechanical techniques using ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials

Deepam Maurya (Edited by), Abhijit Pramanick (Edited by), Dwight Viehland (Edited by)

9780081028025, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 12 October 2020

372 pages, 200 illustrations (80 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.6 kg

"This book would be of interest to electrical engineers, physicists, chemists, or material scientists working in the areas of energy harvesting or energy storage. Its wide variety of intriguing topics can get your imagination going when reading about the many interesting designs and applications that have been developed by researchers and vividly presented in this book. Readers will not only understand the fundamentals of many different types of energy harvesting possibilities but may discover the next new energy harvesting geometry or material after reading this book." --IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine

The need to more efficiently harvest energy for electronics has spurred investigation into materials that can harvest energy from locally abundant sources. Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage is the first book to bring together fundamental mechanisms for harvesting various abundant energy sources using ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials. The authors discuss strategies of designing materials for efficiently harvesting energy sources like solar, wind, wave, temperature fluctuations, mechanical vibrations, biomechanical motion, and stray magnetic fields. In addition, concepts of the high density energy storage using ferroelectric materials is explored. Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting and Storage is appropriate for those working in materials science and engineering, physics, chemistry and electrical engineering disciplines.

1. Introduction to ferroelectrics and related materials
2. Solar energy harvesting with ferroelectric materials
3. Harvesting thermal energy with ferroelectric materials
4. Leveraging size effects in flexoelectric-piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting
5. Modeling and identification of nonlinear piezoelectric material properties for energy harvesting
6. Wind energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials
7. Biomechanical energy harvesting with piezoelectric materials
8. Harvesting stray magnetic field for powering wireless sensors
9. Lead-based and lead-free ferroelectric ceramic capacitors for electrical energy storage

Subject Areas: Electronic devices & materials [TJFD], Electronics & communications engineering [TJ], Materials science [TGM], Ceramics & glass technology [TDCQ]