Analysis of supercapacitor energy loss for power management in environmentally powered wireless sensor nodes

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5391-5403

  Yang, Hengzhao ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charge redistribution; power management; self discharge; supercapacitor energy loss; wireless sensor nodes

Indexed keywords

CHARGE REDISTRIBUTION; POWER MANAGEMENTS; SELF-DISCHARGES; SUPER CAPACITOR; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MULTITASKING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SENSOR NODES;

CAPACITORS;

EID: 84877868456     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2238683     Document Type: Article

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