Optimized energy harvesting based on electro active polymers

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Solid Dielectrics, ICSD 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Graf, Christian ^a   Maas, Jürgen ^a   Schapeler, Dirk ^b  

^a OSTWESTFALEN LIPPE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b Formerly Baver Material Science AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RULES; DIELECTRIC ELASTOMERS; ELECTRIC ENERGIES; ELECTRO-ACTIVE POLYMERS; ENERGY GAIN; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; LOSS MECHANISMS; MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT; POWER GENERATORS; PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION; SMALL SCALE; SYSTEM-SETUP; THEORETICAL LIMITS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; WIND POWER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 77958067525     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSD.2010.5568255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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