Impact-driven, frequency up-converting coupled vibration energy harvesting device for low frequency operation

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Gu, Lei ^a   Livermore, Carol ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CONVENTIONAL TECHNOLOGY; COUPLED VIBRATIONS; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICAL POWER GENERATION; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; G ACCELERATION; HIGH FREQUENCY; LOW FREQUENCY; LOW-FREQUENCY BEAM; MECHANICAL DAMPING; PEAK VALUES; POWER DENSITIES; RESONANT FREQUENCIES;

ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; HARVESTING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; RESONATORS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79953247883     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/4/045004     Document Type: Article

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