Ultrasound Transducer Design

Smart Material is offering engineering services for modeling, development, production and test of vibration energy harvesting devices based on the MFC product line.

Harvesting energy from “waste” vibration present in the environment has seen an increasing interest during the past years as part of the general heightened awareness for alternative energy sources. Beside of typical electro mechanical methods, ferro electric devices have proven to be very effective to harvest energy for low power devices as often found in portable electronics, sensor controlled and condition monitoring systems due to the wide usable frequency range and adaptability.

The MFC overcomes several of the disadvantages of using bulk piezo ceramic in vibration energy harvester. The robustness and relaibility of the MFC increases service life time to more than 20 years, its flexibility allows easy adaptation to various structures. Bonding the MFC to any structure and form does allow for the design of non-resonant harvester which opens many new applications.

Smart Material is actively involved in the research and development of vibration energy harvester and is presenting its research and results at many of the leading conferences dedicated to the growing energy harvesting applications.

You will find additional publications and some of our recent conference presentations under the Publication section on our website.

We also offer Energy Harvesting evaluations kits and electric conditioning units as products, including MFCs attached to cantilevers for rapid prototyping. Check out our Product section.

Our services for the design of energy harvester include:

Dynamic Analysis of vibration sources