An efficient piezoelectric windmill topology for energy harvesting from low-speed air flows

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3576-3583

  Rezaei Hosseinabadi, Nasrin ^a   Tabesh, Ahmadreza ^a   Dehghani, Rasoul ^a   Aghili, Arash ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric energy harvesting; self powered devices; small scale wind energy harvesting; smart monitoring; wind energy; wireless sensor nodes

Indexed keywords

AIR; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SENSOR NODES; SPEED; TOPOLOGY; WIND POWER;

PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTING; SELF-POWERED; SMALL-SCALE WIND ENERGIES; SMART MONITORING; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84929379669     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2014.2370933     Document Type: Article

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