Development of an innovative energy harvesting device usig MFC Bimorphs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7288, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tabesh, Majid ^a   Nguyen, The ^a   Motlagh, Amin M ^a   Elahinia, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Piezoelectricity; Smart materials; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE BEAM; ELECTRIC DISPLACEMENT; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; FAN BLADES; GENERATE ELECTRICITY; HARMONIC EXCITATION; MACRO FIBER COMPOSITE; MECHANICAL DEFLECTION; MICRO-FIBER; OSCILLATING MOTION; PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPHS; PORTABLE DEVICE; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSORS; RENEWABLE SOURCES; SCAVENGING ENERGY; SMART MATERIALS; UPPER-END; VERTICAL DIRECTION; WIND ENERGY; WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENT;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; CONCRETE BRIDGES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC FIELDS; HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PYROELECTRICITY; REMOTE SENSING; WIND TUNNELS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 69549122201     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.817576     Document Type: Conference Paper

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