Investigation of a MEMS piezoelectric energy harvester system with a frequency-widened-bandwidth mechanism introduced by mechanical stoppers

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Liu, Huicong ^a   Lee, Chengkuo ^a   Kobayashi, Takeshi ^b   Tay, Cho Jui ^a   Quan, Chenggen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; OPERATING BANDWIDTH; OPTIMAL POWER; OUTPUT POWER; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; OPTIMIZATION; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84863230318     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/3/035005     Document Type: Article

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