Energy-harnessing footwear using combined electromechanical and piezoelectric transducers for charging supercapacitors

• Main Authors: Altarejos, Loelle Erico F., Apuli, Edmund Joseph R., Dela Cruz, Marcel Elli G., Gamilla, Arthur Josef G., Garcia, Silver Rae L.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2009
• Subjects: Power resources; Piezoelectric transducers; Electromechanical devices
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/14456
• Institution: De La Salle University

With our energy resource gradually depleting, limitations of battery life not coping up, and with the advent of mobile technology that makes the demand for portable energy sources ever increasing, harvesting the so called wasted or dissipated energy from human locomotion was explored. This study sho...