Half-wave rectifiers offer advantages for vibration energy harvesters

Electronics Letters

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 1623-1624

  Clare, L R ^a   Burrow, S G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SYNCHRONOUS; ALTERNATING CURRENT; DIRECT CURRENT; END USERS; FORWARD VOLTAGE DROPS; FULL-WAVE RECTIFIERS; HALF-WAVE; HALF-WAVE RECTIFIERS; LOW POWER FACTOR; POWER FACTORS; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; VIBRATION ENERGIES;

ELECTRIC POWER FACTOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTERS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 80052695128     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2010.8932     Document Type: Article

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