A wearable system of micromachined piezoelectric cantilevers coupled to a rotational oscillating mass for on-body energyharvesting

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 370-373

  Lockhart, Robert ^a   Janphuang, Pattanaphong ^a   Briand, Danick ^a   De Rooij, Nico F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; ECCENTRIC MASS; HARVESTING SYSTEM; MAXIMUM OUTPUT POWER; MICRO-MACHINED; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; ROTATING MASS; WEARABLE SYSTEMS;

NANOCANTILEVERS;

EID: 84898965601     PISSN: 10846999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2014.6765653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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