Energy harvesting for human wearable and implantable bio-sensors

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3432-3436

  Mitcheson, Paul D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATTERY LIFETIME; BODY SENSOR NETWORK; CHEMICAL PROCESS PLANTS; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; FUNDAMENTAL LIMITS; HUMAN BODIES; MACHINE CONDITION MONITORING; MINIATURE DEVICES; POWER DENSITIES; POWER LIMIT; POWER OUT PUT; THERMAL DEVICES; THERMOELECTRIC DEVICES; WATER TREATMENT WORKS;

BIOSENSORS; CONDITION MONITORING; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; HARVESTING; KINETIC ENERGY; WATER TREATMENT;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; HUMAN; POWER SUPPLY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ENERGY TRANSFER; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 78650804494     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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