Triboelectric Nanogenerator as a Self-Powered Communication Unit for Processing and Transmitting Information

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• 作者：Aifang Yu ; Xiangyu Chen ; Rui Wang ; Jingyu Liu ; Jianjun Luo ; Libo Chen ; Yang Zhang ; Wei Wu ; Caihong Liu ; Hongtao Yuan ; Mingzeng Peng ; Weiguo Hu ; Junyi Zhai ; Zhong Lin Wang
• 刊名：ACS Nano
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 26, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：10
• 期：4
• 页码：3944-3950
• 全文大小：429K
• 年卷期：0
• ISSN：1936-086X

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In this paper, we demonstrate an application of a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) as a self-powered communication unit. An elaborately designed TENG is used to translate a series of environmental triggering signals into binary digital signals and drives an electronic–optical device to transmit binary digital data in real-time without an external power supply. The elaborately designed TENG is built in a membrane structure that can effectively drive the electronic–optical device in a bandwidth from 1.30 to 1.65 kHz. Two typical communication modes (amplitude-shift keying and frequency-shift keying) are realized through the resonant response of TENG to different frequencies, and two digital signals, i.e., “1001” and “0110”, are successfully transmitted and received through this system, respectively. Hence, in this study, a simple but efficient method for directly transmitting ambient vibration to the receiver as a digital signal is established using an elaborately designed TENG and an optical communication technique. This type of the communication system, as well as the implementation method presented, exhibits great potential for applications in the smart city, smart home, password authentication, and so on.