Electret based vibration energy harvester for sensor network

2015 Transducers - 2015 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, TRANSDUCERS 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 43-46

  Suzuki, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Charging Method; Energy Harvesting; Polymer Electret; Sensor Network; Vibration

Indexed keywords

ACTUATORS; ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS; ELECTRETS; ELECTROSTATIC GENERATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; KINETIC ENERGY; KINETICS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; MICROSYSTEMS; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; TRANSDUCERS; WEARABLE SENSORS; WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

DEVICE TECHNOLOGIES; ELECTROSTATIC INDUCTION; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; LOW FREQUENCY RANGE; LOW-POWER CONSUMPTION; STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS; VIBRATION; VIBRATION ENERGY HARVESTERS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84955494760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2015.7180856     Document Type: Conference Paper

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