Design and testing of piezoelectric energy harvesting devices for generation of higher electric power for wireless sensor networks

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 699-702

  Zhu, Meiling ^a   Worthington, Emma ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC OUTPUT; ELECTRIC POWER; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OPTIMIZATION DESIGN; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; RESISTIVE LOADS; RESONANT FREQUENCIES; SEISMIC MASS; TESTING RESULTS;

DESIGN; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; HARVESTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77951103443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2009.5398559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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