Theoretical and experimental investigation of a nonlinear compressive-mode energy harvester with high power output under weak excitations

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Zhengbao ^a   Zhu, Yang ^a   Zu, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

energy harvesting; flextensional transducer; geometric nonlinearity; high power output; piezoelectric

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLEXTENSIONAL TRANSDUCERS; GEOMETRIC NON-LINEARITY; HIGH POWER OUTPUT; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL BEHAVIORS; NONLINEAR PIEZOELECTRICITY; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84921803798     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/24/2/025028     Document Type: Article

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