Power processing circuits for piezoelectric vibration-based energy harvesters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4170-4177

  D'Hulst, Reinhilde ^a,b   Sterken, Tom ^c,d   Puers, Robert ^a   Deconinck, Geert ^a   Driesen, Johan ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^c Interuniversitary Center for Microelectronics   (Belgium)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; energy harvester; piezoelectric devices; power conditioning

Indexed keywords

BUCK CONVERTERS; COUPLING COEFFICIENT; DC VOLTAGE; ENERGY HARVESTER; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; INPUT IMPEDANCE; INPUT VOLTAGES; LOAD TYPE; OPTIMAL HARVESTING; OUTPUT POWER; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER; PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION; POWER CONDITIONING; POWER PROCESSING; PROCESSING CIRCUITS; RESISTIVE LOADS;

DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; HARVESTERS; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78349301257     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2044126     Document Type: Article

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