Plucked piezoelectric bimorphs for knee-joint energy harvesting: Modelling and experimental validation

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Pozzi, Michele ^a   Zhu, Meiling ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AT RESONANCE; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; ELECTRICAL LOAD; ENERGY HARVESTER; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; INTENSIVE RESEARCH; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; MODEL PREDICTION; PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPHS; TIP VELOCITY; VOLTAGE OUTPUT; WIRELESS DEVICES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; HARVESTERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79960646575     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/20/5/055007     Document Type: Article

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