Impedance modeling and analysis for piezoelectric energy harvesting systems

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1145-1157

  Liang, Junrui ^a   Liao, Wei Hsin ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; equivalent impedance network; harvested power optimization; impedance matching; piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; EQUIVALENT IMPEDANCE; IMPEDANCE ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE MODELING; INPUT IMPEDANCE; INTERFACE CIRCUITS; OUTPUT IMPEDANCE; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; POWER OPTIMIZATION; SYNCHRONIZED SWITCH HARVESTING;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; EQUIVALENT CIRCUITS; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); LOGIC CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ELECTRIC INDUCTORS;

EID: 84861484214     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2011.2160275     Document Type: Article

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