Modeling the performance of a micromachined piezoelectric energy harvester

Microsystem Technologies

Volumn 18, Issue 7-8, 2012, Pages 1035-1043

  Dow, Ali B Alamin ^a   Schneider, M ^b   Koo, David ^a   Al Rubaye, Hasan A ^a   Bittner, A ^b   Schmid, U ^b   Kherani, Nazir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN FILMS; AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; DEVICE DESIGN; DEVICE MODELING; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENERGY APPROACH; EULER-BERNOULLI; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; HAMILTON'S PRINCIPLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL STRAIN; MICROGENERATORS; MICROMACHINED; MODELLING AND VALIDATION; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY; RANDOM VIBRATIONS; SEISMIC MASS; SILICON CANTILEVER;

ALUMINUM NITRIDE; NANOCANTILEVERS; NITRIDES; SEISMIC DESIGN;

PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES;

EID: 84864612542     PISSN: 09467076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00542-012-1436-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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