Parasitic aware optimization of an RF power scavenging circuit with applications to smartdust sensor networks

RWS 2009 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 332-335

  Salter, T ^a   Metze, G ^a   Goldsman, N ^b  

^a LABORATORY FOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated circuits; Low power; Microwave power transmission; Power transmission; Rectifiers; Smartdust

Indexed keywords

BODY EFFECT; CMOS PROCESS; COMPLETE SYSTEM; CONVENTIONAL POWER; DESIGN GOAL; DESIGN IMPROVEMENTS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY LEVEL; FORM FACTORS; LOW POWER; MOSFETS; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PARASITICS; RECTIFIERS; RF-POWER; SMALL SCALE; SMARTDUST; VOLTAGE DOUBLER;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROWAVE GENERATION; MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION; POWER TRANSMISSION; RADIOFREQUENCY SPECTROSCOPY; SENSOR NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 67650524098     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RWS.2009.4957347     Document Type: Conference Paper

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