A scalable piezoelectric impulse-excited energy harvester for human body excitation

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Pillatsch, P ^a   Yeatman, E M ^a   Holmes, A S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE SIZES; ENERGY HARVESTER; EXCITATION AMPLITUDES; EXCITATION FREQUENCY; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN MOTIONS; IMPULSE EXCITATIONS; INITIAL EXCITATION; LOW FREQUENCY; MAGNETIC ATTRACTION; OPERATIONAL FREQUENCY RANGE; POWER OUT PUT; PROOF MASS; PROOF OF CONCEPT; RESONANT DEVICE;

ELECTROMECHANICAL COUPLING; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84868015378     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/21/11/115018     Document Type: Article

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