Effect of Poling Orientation in Performance of Piezoelectric Materials

The present study proposes enhancement of harvested power and voltage by tuning the poling orientation in piezoelectric materials. The dependency of piezoelectric strain coefficients on performance is presented mathematically and to demonstrate the effect, a cantilever-based energy harvester having platinum substrate is considered with seven different materials. It is observed that PZT-2 shows an improvement of 598% in harvested power and 165% in voltage by poling tuning to 45°. Similar poling tuning helps PZT-7A to improve 325 and 106% in power and voltage generation, respectively. Huge improvement of 1425% in power and 290% for voltage is observed for PMN-0.35PT. PbTi0₃ shows a minimal improvement at poling angle of 30°. The performance of materials like Ba₂NaNb₅O₁₅ and PVDF gets deteriorated with an increase in poling orientation. The peak values of power and voltage are observed at different poling angles for different piezoelectric materials. The least magnitudes of power and voltage generation occur at poling angle of 90° for any material system.