Ultraminiaturized high-speed permanent-magnet generators for milliwatt-level power generation

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1376-1387

  Herrault, Florian ^a,b   Ji, Chang Hyeon ^b   Allen, Mark G ^b  

^a l'Ecole Doctorale   (France)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

AC generators; Micromachining; Permanent magnet (PM) machines; Power microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)

Indexed keywords

AC GENERATORS; ASYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COPPER; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROFABRICATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; POLES; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINERY;

COPPER COILS; ELECTRICAL OUTPUTS; ELECTRICAL POWERS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LOW-POWER APPLICATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD DISTRIBUTIONS; MAGNETIC POLES; MULTIPOLE; OPERATING FREQUENCIES; PERMANENT-MAGNET (PM) MACHINES; POWER MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS (MEMS); RESISTIVE LOADS; ROTATIONAL SPEEDS; STATOR COILS; SYNCHRONOUS MACHINES; ULTRA SMALLS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 57449114504     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2008.2004854     Document Type: Article

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