The doubler of electricity used as battery charger

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 797-801

  De Queiroz, Antonio Carlos M ^a   Domingues, Marcelo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Electrostatic devices; Energy harvesting; Generators; Low power circuits

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ELECTROSTATIC DEVICES; ELECTROSTATICS; ENERGY HARVESTING; GAS GENERATORS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MEMS; SECONDARY BATTERIES;

AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; BATTERY CHARGERS; CONTROL CIRCUITS; DOUBLERS; INHERENT INSTABILITY; LOW-POWER CIRCUIT; MICRO POWER GENERATOR; POWER OUT PUT;

CHARGING (BATTERIES);

EID: 83655212390     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2173963     Document Type: Article

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