Design and analysis of a capacitive vibration-to-electrical energy converter with built-in voltage

ESSDERC 2006 - Proceedings of the 36th European Solid-State Device Research Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 138-141

  Kuehne, Ingo ^a   Frey, Alexander ^a   Eckstein, Gerald ^a   Schmid, Ulrich ^b   Seidel, Helmut ^b  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRODES; MEMS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

CAPACITIVE ENERGY CONVERTER; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; STATE SPACE EQUATIONS;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

EID: 45549091506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSDER.2006.307657     Document Type: Conference Paper

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