Human body heat for powering wearable devices: From thermal energy to application

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 131, Issue , 2017, Pages 44-54

  Thielen, Moritz ^a   Sigrist, Lukas ^a   Magno, Michele ^a,b   Hierold, Christofer ^a   Benini, Luca ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

DC DC conversion; Energy harvesting; TEG; Wearable

Indexed keywords

DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; HARVESTERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; DC-DC CONVERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; REAL WORLD EXPERIMENT; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; WEARABLE; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84997040351     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2016.11.005     Document Type: Article

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