Optimum power and efficiency of piezoelectric vibration energy harvesters with sinusoidal and random vibrations

Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Renaud, M ^a   Elfrink, R ^a   Jambunathan, M ^a   De Nooijer, C ^a   Wang, Z ^a   Rovers, M ^a   Vullers, R ^a   Van Schaijk, R ^a  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN; CLOSED FORM; ELECTROMECHANICAL ENERGY; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM POWER; OPERATING CONDITION; OPTIMUM OPERATING CONDITIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER; PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION; RANDOM VIBRATIONS; SINUSOIDAL VIBRATION;

EFFICIENCY; ENERGY CONVERSION; OPTIMIZATION;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84867971101     PISSN: 09601317     EISSN: 13616439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0960-1317/22/10/105030     Document Type: Article

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