Non-contact frequency-up-conversion energy harvester for durable & broad-band automotive TPMS application

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1273-1276

  Tang, Q C ^a,b   Xia, X Y ^a   Li, X X ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; BROAD BANDS; DRIVING MECHANISM; ENERGY HARVESTER; FREQUENCY RANGES; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; IMPROVING EFFICIENCY; MECHANICAL COLLISIONS; NON-CONTACT; OSCILLATOR STRUCTURES; POTENTIAL POWER; TIRE-PRESSURE MONITORING SYSTEMS; WIDE FREQUENCY RANGE;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; MEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84860439527     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2012.6170389     Document Type: Conference Paper

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