Characterization of a rotary piezoelectric energy harvester based on plucking excitation for knee-joint wearable applications

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Pozzi, Michele ^a   Zhu, Meiling ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SPEED; ELECTRICAL LOAD; ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ENERGY GENERATIONS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN GAIT; MANUFACTURING QUALITY; OPERATING FREQUENCY; PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPHS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; PIEZOELECTRIC GENERATORS; POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC LOADS; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; HARVESTERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

EID: 84859602734     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/5/055004     Document Type: Article

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