Improved Energy Harvesting from Wideband Vibrations by Nonlinear Piezoelectric Converters

Procedia Chemistry

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1203-1206

  Ferrari, Marco ^a   Ferrari, Vittorio ^a   Guizzetti, Michele ^a   Andò, Bruno ^b   Baglio, Salvatore ^b   Trigona, Carlo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; nonlinear bistable system; piezoelectric converter; stochastic resonance; wide spectrum vibrations

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; BISTABLE SYSTEM; ENERGY HARVESTING; LEAD-ZIRCONATE-TITANATE FILMS; MASS-SPRING; MECHANICAL EXCITATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR BISTABLE SYSTEM; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PIEZOELECTRIC BEAM; PIEZOELECTRIC CONVERTER; RANDOM EXCITATIONS; STABLE STATE; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC RESONANCES; WIDE-BAND;

CIRCUIT RESONANCE; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HARVESTING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; MAGNETS; MATLAB; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WHITE NOISE;

PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 71549128665     PISSN: 18766196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proche.2009.07.300     Document Type: Conference Paper

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