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Energy Harvesting: Energy Sources, Excitation Type and Conversion Mechanisms

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The growing demand for energy has led to technological developments focused on the transformation of energy from renewable sources, where strategies capable of converting energy efficiently according to the nature of the energy have emerged. This paper presents a classification of energy sources, excitation types and energy conversion mechanisms used in energy harvesting.

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Duran-Sarmiento, M.A., Borras-Pinilla, C., Del Portillo-Valdes, L.A. (2023). Energy Harvesting: Energy Sources, Excitation Type and Conversion Mechanisms. In: Botto-Tobar, M., Zambrano Vizuete, M., Montes León, S., Torres-Carrión, P., Durakovic, B. (eds) Applied Technologies. ICAT 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1756. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24971-6_26

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