Carbon nanotube film-based cantilever for light and thermal energy harvesting

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1165-1168

  Kotipalli, Venu ^a   Gong, Zhongcheng ^a   He, Yuan ^a   Yadav, Shashi ^a   Penmetsa, Siva ^a   Wei, Jianjun ^b   Que, Long ^a  

^a LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CFD RESEARCH CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON NANOTUBE FILMS; DEVICE OPTIMIZATION; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; INTERNAL RESISTANCE; OUTPUT POWER; PZT; THERMAL RADIATIONS;

CARBON NANOTUBES; NANOCANTILEVERS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; SENSORS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79951926979     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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