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Harvesting vibration energy from piezoelectric material impacted by raindrops has proved to be a promising approach for future applications. A piezoelectric harvester has interesting advantages such as simple structure, easy fabrication, reduced number of components, and direct conversion of vibrations to electrical charge. Extensive research has been carried out and is still underway to explore this technique for practical applications. This review provides a comprehensive picture of global research and development of raindrop energy harvesting using piezoelectric material to enable researchers to determine the direction of further investigation. The work published so far in this area is reviewed and summarized with relevant suggestions for future work. In addition, a brief experiment was carried out to investigate the suitable piezoelectric structure for raindrop energy harvesting. Results showed that the bridge structure generated a higher voltage compared with the cantilever structure.
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The authors would like to express their sincere appreciation to the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS), Ministry of Higher Education, 203/PELECT/6071224 and Postgraduate Research Grant Scheme (PRGS), 1001/PELECT/8046020.
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Wong, CH., Dahari, Z., Abd Manaf, A. et al. Harvesting Raindrop Energy with Piezoelectrics: a Review. J. Electron. Mater. 44, 13–21 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11664-014-3443-4
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