A scalable micro-power converter for multi-source piezoelectric energy harvesting applications

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 782-785

  Romani, Aldo ^a   Paganelli, Rudi P ^b   Tartagni, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Micro power converter; Piezoelectricity

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PASSENGER CARS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; POWER CONVERTERS; TRANSDUCERS;

ACTIVE CONTROL; ELECTRONIC INTERFACE; HIGHER EFFICIENCY; MULTIPLE SOURCE; NUMBER OF SOURCES; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; PROTOTYPE SYSTEM; REALISTIC CONDITIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 78650598829     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18777058     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2010.09.225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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