Challenges for energy harvesting systems under intermittent excitation

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 364-374

  Yang, Guang ^a   Stark, Bernard H ^a   Hollis, Simon J ^a   Burrow, Stephen G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AC DC power converters; energy harvesting; intermittent excitation; startup

Indexed keywords

REACTOR STARTUP;

AC-DC POWER CONVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84907220933     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2014.2337172     Document Type: Article

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