Design techniques for power harvesting of passive wireless microsensors

Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 289-293

  Yuan, Fei ^a   Soltani, Nima ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; HARVESTING;

DESIGN CONSTRAINTS; DESIGN TECHNIQUES; EMISSION POWERS; FIELD POWERS; INPUT SIGNALS; POWER EFFICIENCIES; POWER HARVESTING; RECTIFYING DEVICES; VOLTAGE LOSSES; VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS;

MICROSENSORS;

EID: 54249105994     PISSN: 15483746     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSCAS.2008.4616793     Document Type: Conference Paper

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