Nonlinear springs for bandwidth-tolerant vibration energy harvesting

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1225-1227

  Nguyen, Son D ^a   Halvorsen, Einar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; microelectromechanical devices; nonlinear systems; power generation; vibrations

Indexed keywords

CENTER FREQUENCY; COLORED NOISE; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; FREQUENCY RANGES; MICRO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAL; NON-LINEAR DEVICES; NONLINEAR SPRINGS; OUTPUT POWER; PERFORMANCE BENEFITS; SOFTENING SPRINGS; VIBRATION BANDWIDTH; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; VIBRATIONS;

ENERGY HARVESTING; MEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; POWER GENERATION;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 82455199056     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2011.2170824     Document Type: Article

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