Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 14, No 2: May 2019

Designing cantilever dimension for low power wireless applications

Md Rabiul Awal (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT))
Muzammil Jusoh (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP))
R. Badlishah Ahmad (Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA))
Thennarasan Sabapathy (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP))
M. Najib M. Yasin (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP))
Mohd Hafizuddin Mat (Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP))



Article Info

Publish Date
01 May 2019

Abstract

This paper presents the effect of cantilever width on the displacement pattern for low power acoustic energy propagation. A single layer cantilever configuration is used to design the harvester with Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT-5H). The device is designed with 10×(1 to 10)×0.62 mm dimension. The displacements of the cantilever are obtained through the simulation analysis. The maximum displacements are found of 9.80E-28 mm with the smallest width while minimum displacement is found from 5 mm width. From the results, it is obvious that, smaller width can result larger displacements, however, rectangular and square cantilever shape can be advantageous for low power applications.

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