Open AccessFlexible textile power module
Author(s) -
Yong Sheng,
Jindan Shi,
Steve Beeby
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1407/1/012002
Subject(s) - supercapacitor , textile , capacitance , materials science , energy harvesting , fabrication , power (physics) , rectifier (neural networks) , electrical engineering , energy storage , computer science , engineering , composite material , electrode , physics , medicine , alternative medicine , stochastic neural network , pathology , quantum mechanics , machine learning , recurrent neural network , artificial neural network
This paper reports the design, fabrication and testing of a flexible textile power module consisting of a ferroelectret energy harvester and solid-state supercapacitor energy storage device. Both devices can be combined and fabricated in a single woven textile layer. The textile ferroelectret achieved a peak power output of 0.47 μW.cm −2 for a compressive force of around 350 N, and the single layer textile supercapacitor obtained an area capacitance of 5.2 mF.cm −2 . The ferroelectret can charge the textile supercapacitor via a full bridge rectifier to 48 mV in 40 seconds demonstrating the feasibility of combining these devices on the single textile.