Capacitive power management circuit for micropower thermoelectric generators with a 1.4 μ A controller

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2824-2833

  Doms, Inge ^a,b   Merken, Patrick ^c,d   Van Hoof, Chris ^a,b   Mertens, Robert P ^a,b  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Stichting IMEC Nederland   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Charge pump; Power management circuit; Thermoelectric generator

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DICKSON CHARGE PUMP; LOW POWER APPLICATION; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MICROPOWER; POWER AUTONOMY; POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUIT; POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATOR; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; TOTAL EFFICIENCY; VARIABLE NUMBER; VARYING TEMPERATURE; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ENERGY CONVERSION; PUMPS; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70350596355     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2027546     Document Type: Article

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