Near zero turn-on voltage high-efficiency UHF RFID rectifier in silicon-on-sapphire CMOS

Digest of Papers - IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 105-108

  Theilmann, Paul T ^a   Presti, Calogero D ^a   Kelly, Dylan ^b   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Peregrine Semiconductor   (United States)

Author keywords

AC DC power conversion; CMOS integrated circuits; Power conversion efficiency (PCE); Radio frequency rectifier; RFID; Ultra high frequency (UHF); Wireless power transmission

Indexed keywords

AC-DC POWER CONVERSION; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RADIO FREQUENCIES; ULTRA-HIGH FREQUENCY; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA); ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; RADIO BROADCASTING; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RADIO WAVES; SAPPHIRE; SILICON ON SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 77954494388     PISSN: 15292517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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