PET-PZT Dielectric Polarization: Electricity Harvested from Photon Energy
Alex Nikolov, Sohail Murad, Jongju Lee · 2024
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Description
Alex Nikolov, Sohail Murad, and Jongju Lee test a strip of plastic and ceramic that turns light into electric charge, in a 2024 paper. The device pairs a common plastic film with a piezoelectric ceramic, a stuff that makes voltage when squeezed. The team asks whether leftover stress and heat change how it harvests light, and how the light's color and strength matter.
Under violet light of a set color, the strip acted as both a converter and a store of charge, fed by light, heat, and stress at once. The authors frame such harvesting as a way to skim waste energy from heavy industry. They set the work among kindred tricks, from solar cells to heat and friction harvesters, all aimed at cutting the footprint of energy use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alex Nikolov, Sohail Murad, Jongju Lee |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |