Energy harvesting technologies for low-power electronics

Transactions on emerging telecommunications technologies

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 728-741

  Alvarado, U ^a   Juanicorena, A ^a   Adin, I ^a   Sedano, B ^a   Gutierrez I ^a   De No J ^a  

^a CEIT   (Spain)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Energy scavenging; Low power electronics; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

POWER ELECTRONICS; SENSOR NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

BATTERY REPLACEMENTS; CRITICAL ISSUES; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY SCAVENGING; LOW-COST ELECTRONICS; POWER NEEDS; SENSING NODES; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84867285307     PISSN: 1124318X     EISSN: 15418251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.2529     Document Type: Article

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