Two-stage wideband energy harvester driven by multimode coupled vibration

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 115-121

  Tang, Qiaochu ^a,b   Li, Xinxin ^a,b  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; frequency band; frequency upconversion; multimode resonator; piezoelectric transducers

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; FREQUENCY BANDS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; RESONATORS;

ACCELERATION AMPLITUDE; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FREQUENCY UP-CONVERSION; LOW-FREQUENCY VIBRATION; LUMPED ELEMENT MODEL; MULTI-MODE VIBRATIONS; MULTIMODE RESONATORS; WIDE FREQUENCY BANDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 85027946373     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2013.2296776     Document Type: Article

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