TY - GEN
T1 - Flexible Thermoelectric Generator Using Kirigami-Folding Structure
AU - Terashima, Shingo
AU - Iwase, Eiji
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was partially supported by JST CREST Grant Number JPMJCR20Q3, Japan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6/20
Y1 - 2021/6/20
N2 - In order to realize a flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG) with high output performance and deformability, we have developed TEG with a kind of kirigami-folding structure which called 'Tomoe-folding'. The proposed TEG with Tomoe-folding structure not only obtain a large temperature difference due to fold up from the heat source, but also have a flexibility to be attached to a curved surface because of kirigami structure. In this paper, power generation performance was compared with the 2 type TEGs. As a result, we have shown that the output power was dramatically improved by folding TEG into Tomoe-folding structure.
AB - In order to realize a flexible thermoelectric generator (TEG) with high output performance and deformability, we have developed TEG with a kind of kirigami-folding structure which called 'Tomoe-folding'. The proposed TEG with Tomoe-folding structure not only obtain a large temperature difference due to fold up from the heat source, but also have a flexibility to be attached to a curved surface because of kirigami structure. In this paper, power generation performance was compared with the 2 type TEGs. As a result, we have shown that the output power was dramatically improved by folding TEG into Tomoe-folding structure.
KW - Flexible device
KW - Kirigami
KW - Origami
KW - Thermoelectric generator
KW - Tomoe-folding
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U2 - 10.1109/Transducers50396.2021.9495516
DO - 10.1109/Transducers50396.2021.9495516
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85114960951
T3 - 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2021
SP - 467
EP - 470
BT - 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2021
Y2 - 20 June 2021 through 25 June 2021
ER -