Analysis Model for Magnetic Energy Harvesters

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4302-4311

  Moon, Jinyeong ^a   Leeb, Steven B ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy; harvest; inductor; magnetic; nonideal; nonlinear; power; saturation; transfer window; transformer

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT TRANSFORMERS; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; HARVESTING; OHMIC CONTACTS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SENSOR NODES;

ENERGY; INDUCTOR; MAGNETIC; NON IDEALS; NONLINEAR; POWER; TRANSFORMER;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84924860245     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2014.2357448     Document Type: Article

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