Integration of a low frequency, tunable MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester and a thick film micro capacitor as a power supply system for wireless sensor nodes

2009 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2627-2634

  Miller, Lindsay M ^a   Ho, Christine C ^b   Shafer, Padraic C ^b   Wright, Paul K ^a   Evans, James W ^b   Ramesh, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct write printing; Electrochemical capacitors; Energy harvesting; Low frequency; MEMS

Indexed keywords

DIRECT WRITE; DIRECT-WRITE PRINTING; ELECTROCHEMICAL CAPACITOR; ENERGY HARVESTING; LOW FREQUENCY;

CAPACITANCE; CAPACITORS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY CONVERSION; HARVESTING; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PRINTING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; THICK FILMS;

HARVESTERS;

EID: 72449124724     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCE.2009.5316243     Document Type: Conference Paper

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