Nonlinear behavior of an electrostatic energy harvester under wide-and narrowband excitation

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 305-316

  Tvedt, Lars Geir Whist ^a,b   Nguyen, Duy Son ^a   Halvorsen, Einar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Scientific and Industrial Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology   (Norway)

Author keywords

Electrostatic devices; Energy harvester; Nonlinear systems

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH ENHANCEMENT; BROADBAND VIBRATION; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; ENERGY HARVESTER; FREQUENCY SWEEP; LUMPED MODELS; NARROW-BAND EXCITATION; NON-LINEAR BEAMS; NON-LINEAR PHENOMENA; NONLINEAR BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR SPRINGS; RESONANCE TUNING; VIBRATION ENERGIES;

ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; HARVESTERS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77950594001     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2009.2039017     Document Type: Article

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