Micropower design of a fully autonomous energy harvesting circuit for arrays of piezoelectric transducers

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 729-739

  Romani, Aldo ^a   Filippi, Matteo ^a   Tartagni, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; micropower design; piezoelectric arrays; piezoelectric transducers; synchronous charge extraction

Indexed keywords

CHARGE EXTRACTION; MICROPOWER; OPERATING CONDITION; OVERALL ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PIEZOELECTRIC ARRAYS; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; POWER CONVERSION; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXTRACTION; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84883303124     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2013.2257856     Document Type: Article

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