General model with experimental validation of electrical resonant frequency tuning of electromagnetic vibration energy harvesters

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Zhu, Dibin ^a   Roberts, Stephen ^b   Mouille, Thomas ^b   Tudor, Michael J ^a   Beeby, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PERPETUUM LTD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE LOADS; COUPLING FACTOR; ELECTRICAL LOAD; ELECTRICAL TUNING; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE; ELECTROMAGNETIC VIBRATIONS; ENERGY HARVESTER; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; GENERAL MODEL; MACRO SCALE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MICRO-SCALES; OUTPUT POWER; RESONANT FREQUENCY TUNING; TUNING RANGES;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENERGY HARVESTING; FACTOR ANALYSIS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 84866857290     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/10/105039     Document Type: Article

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