Design of a highly efficient CMOS rectifier for passive communication systems

Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference Proceedings, APMC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 896-899

  Essel, Jochen ^a   Brenk, Daniel ^a   Heidrich, Juergen ^a   Hofer, Guenter ^b   Holweg, Gerald ^b   Weigel, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

CMOS; radio frequency identification; rectifier; RFID; wireless communication

Indexed keywords

CMOS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DC POWER; INPUT POWER; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; OUTPUT POWER; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; PASSIVE COMMUNICATION; RECTIFIER; RFID; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; EFFICIENCY; MODULAR ROBOTS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO WAVES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 79955713183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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