A sub 100μW UWB sensor-node powered by a piezoelectric vibration harvester

2012 IEEE International Conference on Wireless Information Technology and Systems, ICWITS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mishra, B ^a   Botteron, C ^a   Tasselli, G ^a   Robert, C ^a   Farine, P A ^a   Janphuang, P ^a   Briand, D ^a   De Rooij, N F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE POWER; AMBIENT VIBRATIONS; DATA RATE TRANSMISSION; DISCRETE COMPONENTS; ENERGY AUTONOMIES; ENERGY HARVESTER; IMPULSE RADIO; MICROWATTS; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER; PIEZOELECTRIC VIBRATION; POWER MANAGEMENT UNITS (PMU); PROOF OF CONCEPT; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

SENSOR NODES;

EID: 84874265936     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICWITS.2012.6417828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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