Micro-Scale and Nonlinear Vibrational Energy Harvesting

This work addresses issues in energy harvesting that have plagued the potential use of harvesting through the piezoelectric effect at the MEMS scale. Effective energy harvesting devices typically consist of a cantilever beam substrate coated with a thin layer of piezoceramic material and fixed with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Karami, Mohammad Amin
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38612
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06142011-144705/