A silicon MEMS DC/DC converter for autonomous vibration-to-electrical-energy scavenger

IEEE Electron Device Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 481-483

  Paracha, Ayyaz Mahmood ^a   Basset, Philippe ^a   Galayko, Dimitri ^b   Marty, Frédéric ^a   Bourouina, Tarik ^a  

^a National Centre of Scientific Research   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

DC DC power conversion; Energy conversion; Microelectromechanical devices

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS MODE; BATCH PROCESS; BULK SILICON; DC/DC POWER CONVERSION; ENERGY SCAVENGER; EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLIES; INNOVATIVE DESIGN; POWER CONVERSION; SILICON MEMS;

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONVERSION; MEMS;

MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES;

EID: 67349143237     PISSN: 07413106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LED.2009.2015780     Document Type: Article

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