Investigation of the Size Effect on the Nano-beam Type Piezoelectric Low Power Energy Harvesting

In this paper, size dependent nano-beam type peizoelectric energy hardvester is investigated. For this goal, first nonlinear formulation of isotropic piezoelectric Euler-Bernoulli nano-beam is developed based on the size-dependent piezoelectricity theory then special nano-beam type piezoelectric energy hardvester is probed for different parameters. Basic nonlinear equations of piezoelectric nano-beam are derived using principle of minimum potential energy and variational method. To evaluate the formulation derived, static deformation and free vibration of the hinged-hinged piezoelectric nano-beam is investigated in the special case. The results of the derived formulation are investigated under different parameters, and particularly, the ability and performance of the beam type piezoelectric low power energy harvesting was evaluated in nanoscale.