Self-Vth-cancellation high-efficiency CMOS rectifier circuit for UHF rfids

IEICE Transactions on Electronics

Volumn E92-C, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 153-160

  Kotani, Koji ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Power conversion efficiency (PCE); Radio frequency identification (RFID); Rectifier; Self Vth cancellation; Ultra high frequency (UHF)

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; MOSFET DEVICES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; STATIC VAR COMPENSATORS; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

GATE BIAS VOLTAGE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; POWER REGULATION; RECTIFIER; RECTIFIER CIRCUIT; SELF-VTH-CANCELLATION; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 70449506152     PISSN: 09168524     EISSN: 17451353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/transele.E92.C.153     Document Type: Article

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