Research Article

Design, Modeling, and Simulation of Two-Piece Trapezoidal Piezoelectric Devices for Sensing and Energy Harvesting

Table 3

FWHM bandwidth, the min./max. real power density of various trapezoidal bimorph beams [6, 8]. The one-piece trapezoidal bimorph design has the same dimension of the two-piece trapezoidal bimorph for the comparison.

DesignMax. FWHM bandwidthMin. structural power densityMax. structural power density

1st trapezoidal (one-piece)2.9 Hz5.18 mW/cm310.37 mW/cm3
2nd trapezoidal (one-piece)5.6 Hz2.11 mW/cm34.22 mW/cm3
1st trapezoidal (two-piece)2.5 Hz3.63 mW/cm37.26 mW/cm3
2nd trapezoidal (two-piece)1.1 Hz8.40 mW/cm 316.81 mW/cm 3