High efficiency CMOS rectifier circuits for UHF RFIDs using Vth cancellation techniques

ASICON 2009 - Proceedings 2009 8th IEEE International Conference on ASIC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 549-552

  Kotani, Koji ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Radio frequency identification (RFID); Rectifier; Ultra high frequency (UHF); Vth cancellation

Indexed keywords

BRIDGE CONFIGURATION; CANCELLATION TECHNIQUES; CROSS-COUPLED; DRIVE SCHEMES; GATE BIAS; GATE BIAS VOLTAGE; HIGH EFFICIENCY; INPUT POWER; LARGE POWER; MOS TRANSISTORS; MOSFETS; ON-RESISTANCE; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; RECTIFIER; RECTIFIER CIRCUIT; REVERSE LEAKAGE; TEST CIRCUIT; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; TRANSISTOR TRANSISTOR LOGIC CIRCUITS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 77949362425     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASICON.2009.5351344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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