5μW-to-10mW input power range inductive boost converter for indoor photovoltaic energy harvesting with integrated maximum power point tracking algorithm

Digest of Technical Papers - IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 118-119

  Qiu, Yifeng ^a   Van Liempd, Chris ^a   Het Veld, Bert Op ^b   Blanken, Peter G ^b   Van Hoof, Chris ^c,d  

^a HOLST CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^c IMEC   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SILICON; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; TRACKING (POSITION); WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CONTROLLED CURRENT SOURCE; EXPONENTIAL RELATION; ILLUMINATION LEVELS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING ALGORITHMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY HARVESTING; POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS; SUSTAINABLE POWER;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 79955735768     PISSN: 01936530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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