A model for magnetic plucking of piezoelectric beams in energy harvesters

2013 Transducers and Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS and EUROSENSORS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1364-1367

  Pillatsch, P ^a   Yeatman, E M ^a   Holmes, A S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy harvester; magnetic coupling; oscillating proof mass; piezoelectric; rotational

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION MODELS; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER; ENERGY HARVESTER; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; PROOF MASS; ROTATIONAL;

ACTUATORS; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MAGNETS; MICROSYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84891675582     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/Transducers.2013.6627031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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