A closed-loop wide-range tunable mechanical resonator for energy harvesting systems

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Peters, Christian ^a,b   Maurath, Dominic ^a   Schock, Wolfram ^a   Mezger, Florian ^a   Manoli, Yiannos ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for Micromachining and Information Technology   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOSED-LOOP; CLOSED-LOOP CONTROL; CONTROL CIRCUITS; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ENERGY HARVESTER; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL RESONATORS; OPTIMUM OPERATIONS; PHASE SHIFT CONTROL; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONANCE SHIFT; STAND -ALONE; TUNING RANGES; TUNING VOLTAGES;

CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DAMAGE DETECTION; HARVESTERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; TUNING;

RESONATORS;

EID: 70350676857     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/19/9/094004     Document Type: Article

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