Flexible piezoelectric energy harvesting circuit with printable supercapacitor and diodes

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3303-3308

  Porhonen, Juho ^a   Rajala, Satu ^a   Lehtimaki, Suvi ^a   Tuukkanen, Sampo ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; piezoelectricity; printed electronics; supercapacitor

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISPERSIONS; ENERGY HARVESTING; FLEXIBLE ELECTRONICS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES;

CARBON-BASED ELECTRODES; ELECTROCHROMIC DISPLAYS; LOW-TEMPERATURE MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRIC ELEMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; POLY(ETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE) SUBSTRATE; PRINTED ELECTRONICS; SUPER CAPACITOR;

ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS;

EID: 84906788763     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2014.2341713     Document Type: Article

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