环境振动能收集系统的微型压电悬臂梁设计与制作
Design and fabrication of piezoelectric micro battery for vibration energy harvesting
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摘要: 研制长寿稳定电源已经成为微型无线传感网络中的关键技术之一,现有的化学电池容量有限,需要不断的逐个更换耗尽的电池,难以满足无线传感网的实际应用。本文提出利用压电材料的机电耦合特性收集环境振动能,该类型微电源有望成为MEMS提供长期电能。首先分析了利用压电材料收集振动能的原理,对微型悬臂梁结构的设计进行了简单的分析,重点介绍了用MEMS工艺加工微型悬臂梁的工艺流程。悬臂梁结构采用体硅和面硅加工工艺相结合,体硅工艺包括湿法和干法刻蚀硅及表面层结构,金属Pt层刻蚀等,面硅工艺包括溅射金属薄膜和利用Sol-Gel方法在Si/SiO2/Ti/Pt衬底上制作锆钛酸铅(Pb(Zr0.52Ti0.48)O3,PZT)压电薄膜等。经过反复工艺实验研究,确定一套稳定的微型压电能源的制作工艺流程。Abstract: The longlife batteries has been a pivotal technology in the wireless sensor networks.The energy in the chemical batteries is limited for long time work,so the replacement of depleted batteries will become impractical.This paper will present a new type of micro generator which utilizes electric-mechanical coupling character to harvest ambient vibration energy.The energy from vibration energy is the promising energy sources for micro-electric-mechanical system(MEMS).The transform theory of piezoelectric generator and the primary analysis for the micro piezoelectric cantilever structure are present in the first parts.The Bulk and Surface silicon micromachining process is employed in the piezoelectric beam fabrication,such as wet anisotropic etching and RIE for silicon etching,Sol-Gel for PZT,platinum etching and so on.The key micro fabrication steps had been settled for the micro piezoelectric battery by trial and error.
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