High efficiency energy harvesting device with magnetic coupling for resonance frequency tuning

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6932, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Challa, Vinod R ^a   Prasad, M G ^a   Fisher, Frank T ^a  

^a Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Magnetic coupling; Piezoelectric; Tunable energy harvesting device; Vibration energy harvesting

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; SENSOR NETWORKS; STIFFNESS; TUNING; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

EXCITATION FREQUENCY; MAGNETIC FORCE; TUNABLE ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICES; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING;

POWER GENERATION;

EID: 44349157872     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.776385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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