Strain Energy Harvesting for Wireless Sensor Networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5055, Issue , 2003, Pages 319-327

  Churchill, D L ^a   Hamel, M J ^a   Townsend, C P ^a   Arms, S W ^a  

^a MicroStrain Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; Harvesting; MEMs; Piezoelectric; RF; Sensors; Strain

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; CAPACITORS; DATA TRANSFER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MICROCONTROLLERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0242720477     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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