A piezoelectric frequency-increased power generator for scavenging low-frequency ambient vibration

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1203-1206

  Galchev, Tzeno ^a   Aktakka, Ethem E ^a   Kim, Hanseup ^a,b   Najafi, Khalil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; AVERAGE POWER; FABRICATED DEVICE; FREQUENCY RANGES; INTERNAL OPERATIONS; INTERNAL VOLUME; LOW FREQUENCY; MICRO POWER GENERATOR; PEAK POWER; POWER GENERATORS; ULTRAFAST LASER ABLATION; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

ABLATION; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICS; PIEZOELECTRIC CERAMICS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 77952775729     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2010.5442428     Document Type: Conference Paper

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