High-efficiency differential-drive CMOS rectifier for UHF RFIDs

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3011-3018

  Kotani, Koji ^a   Sasaki, Atsushi ^b   Ito, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b D and MHoldings Inc   (Japan)

Author keywords

Differential; Power conversion efficiency (PCE); Radio frequency identification (RFID); Rectifier; Ultra high frequency (UHF)

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CONFIGURATION; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; CROSS-COUPLED; DIFFERENTIAL; GATE BIAS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INPUT POWER; LARGE POWER; LOADING CONDITION; MOS TRANSISTORS; MULTI-STAGE; ON-RESISTANCE; OPERATION FREQUENCY; OUTPUT DC VOLTAGE; OUTPUT LOAD; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCY (PCE); RECTIFIER; RECTIFIER CIRCUIT; REVERSE LEAKAGE; RF SIGNAL; SINGLE-STAGE CONFIGURATION; TEST CIRCUIT; TRANSISTOR SIZE; TRANSISTOR SIZING; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY (UHF);

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; STEEL STRUCTURES; TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 70449495544     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2028955     Document Type: Article

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