Repulsively driven frequency-increased-generators for durable energy harvesting from ultra-low frequency vibration

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Tang, Qiaochu ^a,b   Yang, Yongliang ^a   Li, Xinxin ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS;

ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICAL POWER; ENERGY HARVESTER; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; REPULSIVE FORCES; ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCIES; VIBRATION ENERGIES;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84899091586     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: 10897623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4870799     Document Type: Article

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