Design considerations of MEMS based piezoelectric cantilever for harvesting energy

2012 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics, APACE 2012 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 238-242

  Kok, Swee Leong ^a   Rahman, Ab ^a   Fauzi, Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT); PowerMEMs; Unimorph cantilever

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; ELECTRICAL OUTPUT; ELECTRICAL POWER SOURCES; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; ENERGY HARVESTER; HARVESTING ENERGIES; LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; MAXIMUM DEFLECTION; MICRO POWER GENERATOR; MINIATURE DEVICES; MINIATURE ELECTRONICS; NEUTRAL AXIS; OUTPUT POWER; PHYSICAL LIMITATIONS; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; POWERMEMS; RESISTIVE LOADS; SMALL ENCLOSURES; UNIMORPH; WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; ENERGY HARVESTING; NANOCANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; SENSOR NODES;

ELECTRIC PROPERTIES;

EID: 84874472881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APACE.2012.6457668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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