MEMS-based waste vibration and acoustic energy harvesters

Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited === Every machine vibrates and emits noise. This is unused energy that, with an appropriate mechanism, can be returned to the system. Utilizing an array of piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices to harvest this otherwise was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Householder, Timothy J.
Other Authors: Grbovic, Dragoslav
Published: Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/44583