Abstract
The search for harvesting both the mechanical and solar energies from a single hybrid system is of significant value and represents a new trend in energy harvesting technologies. This single hybrid system can utilize both the energy sources easily available from nature and most importantly it is clean and sustainable. It is a novel technique involving completely different physical principles utilized for scavenging different types of energies. This report presents studies of a hybrid power generator made a direct-current piezoelectric nanogenerator based on ZnO nanosheets and a bulk heterojunction organic solar cell based on an inverted structure. The device shows much larger electric power output compared to its two individual power output components, which facilitates more effective multi-type energies harvesting and clarifies a mechanism for realizing multi-functional energy devices.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 547-555 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Nano Energy |
| Volume | 12 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2015 Mar 1 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was financially supported by Global Frontier Research Center for Advanced Soft Electronics ( 2013M3A6A5073177 ) and Basic Science Research Program ( 2009-0083540 ) through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) Grant funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning , and by the Energy International Collaboration Research & Development Program of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning funded by the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (Grant 2011-8520010050 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Materials Science(all)
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering
