Performance enhancement of piezoelectric energy harvesters using multilayer and multistep beam configurations

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3338-3348

  Sriramdas, Rammohan ^a   Chiplunkar, Sanketh ^a   Cuduvally, Ramya M ^a   Pratap, Rudra ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Multilayer beam; Multistep beam; Piezoelectric coupling; PVDF harvesters

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; ENERGY HARVESTING; MULTILAYERS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; MULTI-LAYER BEAM; MULTI-STEP; PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC BIMORPHS; PIEZOELECTRIC COUPLINGS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84928911791     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2014.2387882     Document Type: Article

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