A variable-capacitance vibration-to-electric energy harvester

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 288-295

  Yen, Bernard C ^a,b   Lang, Jeffrey H ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Variable capacitance based energy conversion; Vibration energy harvesting; Vibration energy scavenging

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; DIODES; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SATURABLE CORE REACTORS;

VARIABLE-CAPACITANCE-BASED ENERGY CONVERSION; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; VIBRATION ENERGY SCAVENGING;

ELECTRIC INVERTERS;

EID: 33947120184     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2005.856043     Document Type: Article

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