Polymer based piezoelectric energy microgenerator

Abstract

The interest in application of all kinds of electronic devices and everyday’s demand on implementation of microelectromechanical systems in the last decade has produced rapid progress in the efforts of miniaturizing sensors and actuators. This paper describes microsystem with integrated power source on piezoelectric principle with pressure sensor. It's meant to be implemented without any physical contact to the outside world. It is energy sufficient and easy to produce with printing technology. It uses the PVDF polymer material.