A piezoelectric fibre composite based energy harvesting device for potential wearable applications

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Swallow, L M ^a   Luo, J K ^a   Siores, E ^a   Patel, I ^a   Dodds, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; FIBERS; MICROELECTRONICS; MICROSENSORS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

ENERGY HARVESTING; MICROELECTRONIC SENSORS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 43249099140     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/17/2/025017     Document Type: Article

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