MEMS electrostatic energy harvesters with end-stop effects

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Le, Cuong Phu ^a   Halvorsen, Einar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 DB BANDWIDTH; BROADBAND EXCITATION; BROADBAND RESPONSE; CONTACT ANALYSIS; DEVICE EFFICIENCY; ELECTRO MECHANICAL COUPLING FACTORS; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; ENERGY HARVESTING DEVICE; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; HERTZ CONTACT MODEL; HIGH ACCELERATION; IMPACT FORCE; IMPACT FORCE MODEL; JUMP PHENOMENON; LINEAR STIFFNESS; LINEAR THEORY; MECHANICAL QUALITY FACTORS; MICRO-SCALES; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITIES (PSD); PROOF MASS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SPICE MODEL; VIBRATION ENERGIES;

DISPLAY DEVICES; ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; ENERGY HARVESTING; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; STIFFNESS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84863821884     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/22/7/074013     Document Type: Article

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