Harvesting energy from a cantilever piezoelectric beam

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5386, Issue , 2004, Pages 259-268

  Kim, Sunghwan ^a   Johnson, Thomas J ^a   Clark, William W ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; Piezoelectric; Unimorph

Indexed keywords

BEAM VIBRATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; PIEZOELECTRIC BEAMS; UNIMORPH;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRODES; ENERGY STORAGE; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; THERMOCOUPLES; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL); WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

CANTILEVER BEAMS;

EID: 8844286936     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.539889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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