Scavenging energy from human motion with tubular dielectric polymer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7642, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jean Mistral, Claire ^a,b   Basrour, Skandar ^b  

^a CEA LETI   (France)

^b TIMA LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

Dielectric polymer; Human motion; Mechanical energy scavenger

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC POLYMERS; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; HUMAN MOTIONS; LOW CONSUMPTION; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; PLANAR STRUCTURE; POLING VOLTAGE; POWER MANAGEMENTS; SCAVENGING ENERGY;

ACTUATORS; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; ORGANIC POLYMERS; SCAVENGING;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77953256572     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.847771     Document Type: Conference Paper

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