Investigations on energy scavenging methods using mems devices

Proceedings of the International Semiconductor Conference, CAS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 163-166

  De Pasquale, G ^a   Soma A ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Electrostatics; Energy harvesting; Energy scavenging; Piezoelectricity

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RELATIONS; CAPACITIVE STRUCTURE; DESIGN APPROACHES; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY SCAVENGING; MEMSDEVICES; OPERATION FREQUENCY; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; HARVESTING; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PYROELECTRICITY;

FREQUENCY ESTIMATION;

EID: 67249088084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMICND.2008.4703357     Document Type: Conference Paper

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