Empirical proof of concept for TE generation in mobile computers

2012 International Conference on Energy Aware Computing, ICEAC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Denker, Reha ^a   Muhtaroglu, Ali ^a   Kulah, Haluk ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

energy scavenging; Seebeck effect; sustainable energy systems; thermal modeling; thermoelectric conversion

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SCAVENGING; MODULE INTEGRATION; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; TE POWER GENERATIONS; THERMAL MODELING; THERMAL SIMULATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC CONVERSION; VALIDATION RESULTS;

ENERGY HARVESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SEEBECK EFFECT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84876073070     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEAC.2012.6471011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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