Electrical Energy Harvesting from the Flexible Liquid Crystal Cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Hoon Lee ◽  
Jun-Yong Lee ◽  
Jeong-Seon Yu ◽  
Jong-Hyun Kim
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Crystal Cells

scholarly journals Emerging Energy Harvesting Technology for Electro/Photo-Catalytic Water Splitting Application

Catalysts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Jianfei Tang ◽  
Tianle Liu ◽  
Sijia Miao ◽  
Yuljae Cho
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Water Splitting ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Energy Applications ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Energy Technologies ◽  
Splitting System

In recent years, we have experienced extreme climate changes due to the global warming, continuously impacting and changing our daily lives. To build a sustainable environment and society, various energy technologies have been developed and introduced. Among them, energy harvesting, converting ambient environmental energy into electrical energy, has emerged as one of the promising technologies for a variety of energy applications. In particular, a photo (electro) catalytic water splitting system, coupled with emerging energy harvesting technology, has demonstrated high device performance, demonstrating its great social impact for the development of the new water splitting system. In this review article, we introduce and discuss in detail the emerging energy-harvesting technology for photo (electro) catalytic water splitting applications. The article includes fundamentals of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic water splitting and water splitting applications coupled with the emerging energy-harvesting technologies using piezoelectric, piezo-phototronic, pyroelectric, triboelectric, and photovoltaic effects. We comprehensively deal with different mechanisms in water splitting processes with respect to the energy harvesting processes and their effect on the water splitting systems. Lastly, new opportunities in energy harvesting-assisted water splitting are introduced together with future research directions that need to be investigated for further development of new types of water splitting systems.

scholarly journals Passively Tunable Terahertz Filters Using Liquid Crystal Cells Coated with Metamaterials

Coatings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 381
Author(s):  
Wei-Fan Chiang ◽  
Yu-Yun Lu ◽  
Yin-Pei Chen ◽  
Xin-Yu Lin ◽  
Tsong-Shin Lim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Ring Resonators ◽  
Maximum Frequency ◽  
Split Ring ◽  
Split Ring Resonators ◽  
Terahertz Region ◽  
Resonance Frequencies ◽  
Terahertz Communication ◽  
Terahertz Sensing ◽  
Crystal Cells

Liquid crystal (LC) cells that are coated with metamaterials are fabricated in this work. The LC directors in the cells are aligned by rubbed polyimide layers, and make angles θ of 0°, 45°, and 90° with respect to the gaps of the split-ring resonators (SRRs) of the metamaterials. Experimental results display that the resonance frequencies of the metamaterials in these cells increase with an increase in θ, and the cells have a maximum frequency shifting region of 18 GHz. Simulated results reveal that the increase in the resonance frequencies arises from the birefringence of the LC, and the LC has a birefringence of 0.15 in the terahertz region. The resonance frequencies of the metamaterials are shifted by the rubbing directions of the polyimide layers, so the LC cells coated with the metamaterials are passively tunable terahertz filters. The passively tunable terahertz filters exhibit promising applications on terahertz communication, terahertz sensing, and terahertz imaging.

Model of Ion Solvation in Liquid Crystal Cells

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (Part 2, No. 1A/B) ◽  
pp. L88-L90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Bremer ◽  
Shohei Naemura ◽  
Kazuaki Tarumi
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Ion Solvation ◽  
Crystal Cells

Coarsening of Reverse Tilt Domains in Liquid-Crystal Cells with Heterogeneous Alignment Layers

1999 ◽  
Vol 82 (8) ◽  
pp. 1716-1719 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. K. Shenoy ◽  
J. V. Selinger ◽  
K. A. Grüneberg ◽  
J. Naciri ◽  
R. Shashidhar
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Alignment Layers ◽  
Crystal Cells

Theory of hybrid photorefractive plasmonic liquid crystal cells

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (8) ◽  
pp. 1874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith R. Daly ◽  
Stephen Abbott ◽  
Giampaolo D’Alessandro ◽  
David C. Smith ◽  
Malgosia Kaczmarek
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Crystal Cells

Experimental Research of Energy Harvesting and Storage Based on Ferroelectric Materials

2012 ◽  
Vol 476-478 ◽  
pp. 1336-1340
Author(s):  
Kai Feng Li ◽  
Rong Liu ◽  
Lin Xiang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Vibrational Energy ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Mechanical Strain ◽  
Electrical Potential ◽  
Electrical Energy ◽  
Ferroelectric Materials ◽  
Energy Scavenging ◽  
And Storage

The concept of energy harvesting works towards developing self-powered devices that do not require replaceable power supplies. Energy scavenging devices are designed to capture the ambient energy surrounding the electronics and convert it into usable electrical energy. A number of sources of harvestable ambient energy exist, including waste heat, vibration, electromagnetic waves, wind, flowing water, and solar energy. While each of these sources of energy can be effectively used to power remote sensors, the structural and biological communities have placed an emphasis on scavenging vibrational energy with ferroelectric materials. Ferroelectric materials have a crystalline structure that provide a unique ability to convert an applied electrical potential into a mechanical strain or vice versa. Based on the properties of the material, this paper investigates the technique of power harvesting and storage.

Nematic liquid crystal cells for optical spatial solitons (Nematicons)

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. De Luca ◽  
A. Veltri ◽  
L. Pezzi ◽  
G. Coschignano ◽  
C. Umeton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystal ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystal ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
Optical Spatial Solitons ◽  
Crystal Cells
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