Efficient physical modeling of MEMS energy harvesting devices with VHDL-AMS

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1427-1437

  Boussetta, Hela ^a,c   Marzencki, Marcin ^b   Basrour, Skandar ^a   Soudani, Adel ^c  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE MONASTIR   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting devices; microelectromechanical systems (MEMS); multidomain modeling; physical modeling; scavengers; VHDL AMS

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; MULTI-DOMAIN MODELING; PHYSICAL MODELING; VHDL-AMS;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC SIGNAL SYSTEMS; HARVESTING; MECHATRONICS; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MODELS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSOR NODES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77954617276     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2010.2044786     Document Type: Article

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