TY - JOUR
T1 - High-performance flexible thermoelectric generator for self-powered wireless BLE sensing systems
AU - Van Toan, Nguyen
AU - Kim Tuoi, Truong Thi
AU - Ono, Takahito
N1 - Funding Information:
Part of this work was performed in the Micro/Nanomachining Research Education Center (MNC) of Tohoku University. This work was supported by Cabinet Office, Government of Japan, Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) (funding agency: The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, NEDO) and also supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI for Young Scientists (Grant number: 20K15147).
Funding Information:
Part of this work was performed in the Micro/Nanomachining Research Education Center (MNC) of Tohoku University. This work was supported by Cabinet Office, Government of Japan , Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program ( SIP ) (funding agency: The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization , NEDO ) and also supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI for Young Scientists (Grant number: 20K15147).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2022/7/15
Y1 - 2022/7/15
N2 - This work reports a high-performance flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG) and its application for self-powered wireless Bluetooth (BLE) sensing systems. The proposed flexible TEG based on a polyimide substrate and an electrodeposited thermoelectric material is fabricated successfully. A high output voltage of 1.3 V is observed under a temperature difference ΔT of 52 °C. Its maximum output power and power density are 95.9 mW and 610.8 μW/cm2, respectively, under the same above ΔT. In addition, its remarkable flexible characteristic has been inspected, and its output performance is highly consistent under a repeatability evaluation. Our proposed flexible TEG shows much higher performance than that of other recently published works. Furthermore, two practical applications utilizing the fabricated flexible TEG have been successfully conducted. First, heat waste from an electric thermos pot is converted into electricity and used as an electrical power source for electronic devices. Second, a self-power wireless BLE sensing system driven by thermal heat waste is demonstrated. This work brings out a new opportunity in a futuristic flexible TEG to harvest thermal heat waste into useable electricity, especially in the fields of using wireless self-powered IoT sensing systems.
AB - This work reports a high-performance flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG) and its application for self-powered wireless Bluetooth (BLE) sensing systems. The proposed flexible TEG based on a polyimide substrate and an electrodeposited thermoelectric material is fabricated successfully. A high output voltage of 1.3 V is observed under a temperature difference ΔT of 52 °C. Its maximum output power and power density are 95.9 mW and 610.8 μW/cm2, respectively, under the same above ΔT. In addition, its remarkable flexible characteristic has been inspected, and its output performance is highly consistent under a repeatability evaluation. Our proposed flexible TEG shows much higher performance than that of other recently published works. Furthermore, two practical applications utilizing the fabricated flexible TEG have been successfully conducted. First, heat waste from an electric thermos pot is converted into electricity and used as an electrical power source for electronic devices. Second, a self-power wireless BLE sensing system driven by thermal heat waste is demonstrated. This work brings out a new opportunity in a futuristic flexible TEG to harvest thermal heat waste into useable electricity, especially in the fields of using wireless self-powered IoT sensing systems.
KW - Electrodeposited thermoelectric materials
KW - Flexible thermoelectric generator
KW - Low-power consumption
KW - Polyimide substrate
KW - Wireless self-powered sensing systems
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231504
DO - 10.1016/j.jpowsour.2022.231504
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129036906
SN - 0378-7753
VL - 536
JO - Journal of Power Sources
JF - Journal of Power Sources
M1 - 231504
ER -
