A multiharvested self-powered system in a low-voltage low-power technology

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 4250-4263

  Colomer Farrarons, J ^a   Miribel Catala P ^a   Saiz Vela, A ^a   Samitier, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Electric power generation; energy scavenging; low power electronics; power conditioning

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY; ENERGY SCAVENGING; HARVESTING SYSTEM; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOW POWER APPLICATION; LOW-POWER TECHNOLOGY; LOW-VOLTAGE; OPERATING CONDITION; PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORS; POWER CONDITIONING; POWER SOURCES; PZT; SELF-POWERED SYSTEMS; SOLAR LIGHT; TOTAL POWER;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; HARVESTING; POWER ELECTRONICS; SOLAR ENERGY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 80051772090     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2010.2095395     Document Type: Article

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