Harvesting Ambient Vibration Energy over a Wide Frequency Range for Self-Powered Electronics

ACS Nano

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 1728-1735

  Wang, Xiaofeng ^a,b   Niu, Simiao ^a   Yi, Fang ^a,c   Yin, Yajiang ^b   Hao, Chenglong ^b   Dai, Keren ^b   Zhang, Yue ^c   You, Zheng ^b   Wang, Zhong Lin ^a,d  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

elastic structure; mechanical energy harvesting; triboelectric nanogenerator; vibrational energy

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POWER MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ELASTIC STRUCTURES; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; LOW-FREQUENCY VIBRATION; MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY; MECHANICAL ENERGIES; NANOGENERATOR; POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS; VIBRATIONAL ENERGIES;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 85014232412     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b07633     Document Type: Article

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