Microscale electrostatic energy harvester using internal impacts

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1409-1421

  Le, Cuong P ^a   Halvorsen, Einar ^a   Søråsen, Oddvar ^b   Yeatman, Eric M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

electrostatic transducer; energy harvesting; impacts; power conversion

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION AMPLITUDE; ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; ELECTROSTATIC TRANSDUCERS; EXCITATION REGIME; FREQUENCY SWEEP; HIGH-ACCELERATION; IMPACT DEVICE; IMPACT FORCE; IMPACTS; INERTIAL MASS; MICRO-SCALES; NONLINEAR MECHANISMS; OUTPUT POWER; POWER CONVERSION; REFERENCE DEVICES;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; TRANSDUCERS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84863852006     PISSN: 1045389X     EISSN: 15308138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1045389X12436739     Document Type: Article

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