Advanced fabrication, modeling, and testing of a microphotosynthetic electrochemical cell for energy harvesting applications

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1275-1285

  Ramanan, Arvind Vyas ^a   Pakirisamy, Muthukumaran ^a   Williamson, Sheldon S ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Photosynthesis; photosynthetic power cell (PSC); power electronic converter; renewable energy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; FABRICATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ADVANCED FABRICATION; ELECTRICAL EQUIVALENT MODELS; ELECTRON-TRANSFER CHAIN; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; POWER CELLS; POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 84908241233     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2317675     Document Type: Article

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