Springless vibration energy harvesters

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages 703-711

  Mahmoud, Mohamed A E ^a   Abdel Rahman, Eihab M ^a   Mansour, Raafat R ^a   El Saadany, Ehab F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrostatic; Energy harvester; Springless; Vibration

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; ENERGY HARVESTER; LOW FREQUENCY; PRECISION ALIGNMENT; RESTORING FORCES; SPRINGLESS; THIN FILM FABRICATION PROCESS; VIBRATION ENERGIES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DESIGN; HARVESTERS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 80054976921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2010-29046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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