Human Powered Piezoelectric Batteries to Supply Power to Wearable Electronic Devices

International Journal of the Society of Materials Engineering for Resources

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 34-40

  Gonzalez, Jose Luis ^a   Rubio, Antonio ^a   Moll, Francesc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Piezoelectric materials; Power generators; Wearable devices

Indexed keywords

EID: 85009539283     PISSN: 13479725     EISSN: 18846629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5188/ijsmer.10.34     Document Type: Article

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