Piezo Charger Proof of Market

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Piezoelectricity is a growing area of energy generation within micro-electronics, whereelectricity is generated at no cost from stress, strain, movement and vibrations. The market forpiezoelectric devices is highly diverse but traditionally, target applications have relativelyhigh power consumption, and piezoelectric devices have only been able to produce smallpower outputs which have limited their potential.However, as technology advances many applications now require far less power to operate,thus making piezoelectricity a feasible method of powering micro-scale electronics or LEDsetc. Combined with the stronger focus of industry to create energy efficient and ecosustainableproducts that consume/use less power this is resulting in a paradigm shift allowingpiezoelectric technology to become a far more valuable solution in the coming years.Traditional piezoelectric devices use a Lead zirconate titanate composite material (PZT) togenerate energy which is smooth and flat. Electricity is created when mechanical oscillations(i.e. small crystals rubbing together) occur during vibrational movement - the power of whichis dependent on its size and structure for a given application. However one of thedisadvantages of using PZT in its traditional form is that the output power is typicallyrelatively low.