Comparing three different energy harvesting circuits for a ZnO nanowire based nanogenerator

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Van Den Heever, T S ^a   Perold, W J ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIRCUIT COMPONENTS; CONSTANT VOLTAGE; CURRENT SITUATION; FULL-BRIDGE RECTIFIERS; PIEZOELECTRIC VOLTAGE; PRACTICAL EXPERIMENTATION; SYNCHRONIZED SWITCH HARVESTING; ZINC OXIDE (ZNO);

BRIDGE CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; NANOWIRES; ZINC OXIDE;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84884581384     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/22/10/105029     Document Type: Article

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