Harvesting energy from a rotating gear using an AFM-Like MEMS piezoelectric frequency up-converting energy harvester

Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 742-754

  Janphuang, Pattanaphong ^a   Lockhart, Robert A ^a   Isarakorn, Don ^a   Henein, Simon ^a   Briand, Danick ^b   De Rooij, Nico F ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b KING MONGKUT'S INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LADKRABANG   (Thailand)

Author keywords

bulk PZT; efficiency; frequency up conversion; Impact energy harvesting; MEMS; piezoelectric; reliability; rotating gear

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; ENERGY HARVESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FREQUENCY CONVERTERS; GEAR TEETH; HEAT ENGINES; MEMS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RELIABILITY;

BULK PZT; EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD SIMULATION; FREQUENCY UP CONVERSION; MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS; PIEZOELECTRIC; PIEZOELECTRIC CANTILEVERS; PIEZOELECTRIC HARVESTER;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 85027944154     PISSN: 10577157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JMEMS.2014.2349794     Document Type: Article

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