Harvesting rainfall energy by means of piezoelectric transducer

4th International Conference on Clean Electrical Power: Renewable Energy Resources Impact, ICCEP 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 634-639

  Viola, F ^a   Romano, P ^a   Miceli, R ^a   Acciari, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

LEAD ZIRCONATE TITANATE; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; POLYVINYLIDENE DIFLUORIDE;

ENERGY HARVESTING; RAIN; SEMICONDUCTING LEAD COMPOUNDS; TRANSDUCERS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84884649099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCEP.2013.6586952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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