Research Article

Evaluation of Effective Elastic, Piezoelectric, and Dielectric Properties of SU8/ZnO Nanocomposite for Vertically Integrated Nanogenerators Using Finite Element Method

Table 1

Characteristics of the RVEs with regard to their size and the density and arrangement of ZnO nanowires.

‎ RVE nameArrangement of nanowires in - planeEdge length of full cubic RVE (2h)Edge length of (1/8)th of the full RVE (h)Effective number of nanowires in full RVE

RVE1Square array120 nm60 nm1
RVE2Square array240 nm120 nm4
RVE3Face-centred rectangle array240 nm120 nm4
RVE4Face-centred square array240 nm120 nm8
RVE5Face-centred square array120 nm60 nm2
RVE6Quasi-random800 nm400 nm64