A Broadband Bistable Piezoelectric Energy Harvester with Nonlinear High-Power Extraction

IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 6763-6774

  Singh, Kanishka Aman ^a   Kumar, Ratnesh ^a   Weber, Robert J ^a  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; nonlinear systems; piezoelectric transducer; switched circuits

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; EXTRACTION; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; TRANSDUCERS;

BROADBAND EXCITATION; BUTTERWORTH VAN DYKE MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; NON-LINEAR VIBRATIONS; PARALLEL SYNCHRONIZED SWITCH HARVESTING ON INDUCTORS; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC ENERGY HARVESTERS; SWITCHED CIRCUITS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84940703811     PISSN: 08858993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPEL.2015.2394392     Document Type: Article

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