Human heat generator for energy scavenging with wearable thermopiles

Sensors and Transducers

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-10

  Leonov, Vladimir ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Energy scavenging; The human being; Thermal resistance of human body; Thermoelectric generator; Wearable device

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SCAVENGING; HUMAN BEING; THERMAL RESISTANCE; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; WEARABLE DEVICES;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HEAT TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 79954992093     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17265479     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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