An energy-autonomous self-tunable piezoelectric vibration energy harvesting system

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1293-1296

  Eichhorn, C ^a   Tchagsim, R ^a   Wilhelm, N ^a   Biancuzzi, G ^a   Woias, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION AMPLITUDE; AGEING EFFECTS; CONTROL UNIT; ENERGY SAVING; FREQUENCY ADAPTATION; FREQUENCY ADJUSTMENT; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY SHIFT; LOOK UP TABLE; PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION; POWER RANGE; RECOVERY TIME; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; RESONANT MODE; ULTRA-LOW POWER; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; MECHANICS; MEMS; REACTIVE ION ETCHING; RESONANCE; TABLE LOOKUP;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79953802515     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2011.5734670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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