A novel method to measure the generated voltage of a ZnO nanogenerator

T Stanley van den Heever1, Ulrich Büttner, Willem J Perold

  • 1Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. tsvdh@sun.ac.za

Nanotechnology
|September 8, 2011
PubMed

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