Accurate supercapacitor modeling for energy harvesting wireless sensor nodes

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 911-915

  Weddell, Alex S ^a   Merrett, Geoff V ^a   Kazmierski, Tom J ^a   Al Hashimi, Bashir M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Supercapacitor leakage; Supercapacitor modeling; System simulation; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

LEAKAGE CURRENTS; SENSOR NODES; SUPERCAPACITOR; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CIRCUIT-BASED MODELS; NON IDEALS; SUPER-CAPACITOR MODELING; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 83655212406     PISSN: 15497747     EISSN: 15583791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSII.2011.2172712     Document Type: Article

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