A scrape-through piezoelectric MEMS energy harvester with frequency broadband and up-conversion behaviors

Microsystem Technologies

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1747-1754

  Liu, Huicong ^a   Tay, Cho Jui ^a   Quan, Chenggen ^a   Kobayashi, Takeshi ^b   Lee, Chengkuo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTER; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; LOW FREQUENCY; METAL-BASE; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; PIEZOELECTRIC MEMS; UP-CONVERSION;

ENERGY HARVESTING; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84855716576     PISSN: 09467076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00542-011-1361-4     Document Type: Article

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