A novel method to measure the generated voltage of a ZnO nanogenerator

T. Stanley Van Den Heever; Ulrich Büttner; Willem J. Perold

doi:10.1088/0957-4484/22/39/395204

A novel method to measure the generated voltage of a ZnO nanogenerator

T. Stanley Van Den Heever^*, Ulrich Büttner, Willem J. Perold

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Abstract

A novel method to measure the output voltage of a zinc oxide nanowire nanogenerator is proposed. Various tests are performed to verify that the output voltage does indeed originate from the nanogenerator and not from environmental noise. Although noise does influence the output voltage measurements, the output voltage is easily distinguishable from the measured noise. It is also shown that the method can be used to determine the internal resistance of the nanogenerator by measuring the output voltage over different output resistors.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	395204
Journal	Nanotechnology
Volume	22
Issue number	39
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0957-4484/22/39/395204
State	Published - Sep 30 2011
Externally published	Yes

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General Chemistry
Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering
Bioengineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
General Materials Science

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