There's plenty of energy at the bottom (micro and nano scale nonlinear noise harvesting)

Contemporary Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-135

  Gammaitoni, Luca ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; MEMS; nanotech; NEMS; noise; nonlinear

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857945934     PISSN: 00107514     EISSN: 13665812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00107514.2011.647793     Document Type: Article

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