Review of power conditioning for kinetic energy harvesting systems

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 803-815

  Szarka, Gyorgy D ^a   Stark, Bernard H ^a   Burrow, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy management; piezoelectric transducers; power conditioning; power conversion; rectifiers

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTER; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; LOW-POWER SYSTEMS; OPTIMUM LOADS; POWER CONDITIONING; POWER CONVERSION; POWER MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES;

ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84855645427     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2011.2161675     Document Type: Review

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