Low-Cost Capacitor Voltage Inverter for Outstanding Performance in Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 281-291

  Lallart, Mickaël ^a,b   Garbuio, Lauric ^a   Richard, Claude ^a   Guyomar, Daniel ^a  

^a University de Lyon   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

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EID: 85008039155     PISSN: 08853010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TUFFC.2010.1408     Document Type: Article

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