A hybrid indoor ambient light and vibration energy harvester for wireless sensor nodes

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 8740-8755

  Yu, Hua ^a,b,c   Yue, Qiuqin ^d   Zhou, Jielin ^a,b,c   Wang, Wei ^b  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c National Key Laboratory of Fundamental Science of Micro/Nano Device and System Technology   (China)

^d CHONGQING COLLEGE OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING   (China)

Author keywords

Hybrid energy harvester; Indoor ambient light; Power conditioning circuit; Vibration energy; Wireless sensor node

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSOR NODES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

AMBIENT LIGHT; HYBRID ENERGY; POWER CONDITIONING; VIBRATION ENERGIES; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84901218381     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140508740     Document Type: Article

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