Electrostatic energy harvester employing conductive droplet and thin-film electret

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 315-323

  Yang, Zhaochu ^a   Halvorsen, Einar ^a   Dong, Tao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

conductive droplet; electret; electrostatic; Energy harvesting; ionic liquid marble

Indexed keywords

ELECTRETS; ELECTROSTATICS; ENERGY HARVESTING; IONIC LIQUIDS; MERCURY (METAL);

ELECTROSTATIC ENERGIES; LIQUID MARBLE; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT PERFORMANCE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; OUTPUT WAVEFORM; SEMI-EMPIRICAL MODELING; VERY LOW FREQUENCY;

DROPS;

EID: 84898443857     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2013.2273933     Document Type: Article

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