Autonomous Multisensor System Powered by a Solar Thermoelectric Energy Harvester with Ultralow-Power Management Circuit

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 64, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2918-2925

  Dias, Pedro Carvalhaes ^a   Morais, Flávio José Oliveira ^a   De Morais França, Maria Bernadete ^b   Ferreira, Elnatan Chagas ^a   Cabot, Andreu ^c   Siqueira Dias, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^c CATALONIA INSTITUTE FOR ENERGY RESEARCH IREC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autonomous sensors; energy harvesting; low power multisensor systems; power management; solar thermoelectric generators; thermoelectric generators

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; POWER MANAGEMENT; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

ANODIZED ALUMINUM; BISMUTH TELLURIDE; HARVESTING SYSTEM; SOLAR THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SWITCHING DC-DC CONVERTERS; THERMOELECTRIC ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84959473874     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2015.2444253     Document Type: Article

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