AVX has come up with an Energy Harvesting Application Design Kit.   The kit consists of low-loss components selected to help design engineers involved in energy storage, blocking, IC support, output filtering, and external connections in thermoelectric generators, solar cells, piezoelectric devices, and micro wind turbines, including MLCCs, supercapacitors, Schottky diodes, inductors, and connectors.   Components included ...

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