Wideband MEMS energy harvester driven by colored noise

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 892-900

  Nguyen, Son Duy ^a   Halvorsen, Einar ^a   Jensen, Geir U ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

^b SINTEF   (Norway)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; microelectromechanical devices; nonlinear systems; power generation; vibrations

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; NON-LINEAR SPRINGS; RANDOM VIBRATIONS; VIBRATION BANDWIDTH; VIBRATIONS; WHITE NOISE EXCITATION;

BANDWIDTH; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MULTIUSER DETECTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; POWER GENERATION; WHITE NOISE;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84881478621     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2013.2248343     Document Type: Article

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