Thermal energy harvesting wireless sensor node in aluminum Core PCB technology

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 337-345

  Prijic, Aneta ^a   Vracar, Ljubomir ^a   Vuckovic, Dusan ^a   Milic, Dejan ^b   Prijic, Zoran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NI   (Serbia)

^b DELTA Danish Electronics Light & Acoustics   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ENERGY HARVESTING; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SENSOR NODES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

CIRCUITRY IMPLEMENTATION; ELECTRONIC COMPONENT; LOW-TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; OPERATIONAL AUTONOMY; PCB TECHNOLOGIES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD (PCBS); THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS;

EID: 84910633670     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2343932     Document Type: Article

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