Kinetic energy harvesting with bistable oscillators

Applied Energy

Volumn 97, Issue , 2012, Pages 771-776

  Vocca, Helios ^a   Neri, Igor ^a   Travasso, Flavio ^a   Gammaitoni, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Noise; Nonlinearity; Vibration; Wide spectrum

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; KINETICS; MOBILE DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

BISTABLES; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; DYNAMICAL FEATURES; ENVIRONMENTAL VIBRATIONS; FREQUENCY-TUNING; LINEAR OSCILLATOR; LOW FREQUENCY; MECHANICAL ELEMENTS; NOISE; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-LINEARITY; OUTPUT RESPONSE; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER; PIEZOELECTRIC METHODS; RANDOM VIBRATIONS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; VIBRATION; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTING; WIDE SPECTRUM;

KINETIC ENERGY;

ENERGY RESOURCE; KINETIC ENERGY; NOISE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIEZOELECTRICITY; STOCHASTICITY; VIBRATION;

EID: 84862323411     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2011.12.087     Document Type: Article

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