A low cost generator concept for energy harvesting applications

TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS '07 - 4th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 875-878

  Wischke, M ^a   Goldschmidtboeing, F ^a   Woias, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Piezoelectric disc bender; Power generation

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; HARVESTING; MICROSYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

APPLICATIONS.; DISSIPATED ENERGY; ELECTRICAL OUTPUT; ENERGY GENERATORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICES; FE-ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; LOW COSTS; LOW FREQUENCIES; NUMERICAL MODELLING; PASSIVE DAMPERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DISC BENDER; PIEZOELECTRIC DISCS; POWER GENERATION; PRESSURE PULSES; SELF-POWERED SYSTEMS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; STEEL COMPOSITES;

PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 50049090324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SENSOR.2007.4300270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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