Towards miniature step-up power converters for mobile microsystems

Conference Proceedings - IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition - APEC

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1451-1455

  Xue, Lin ^a   Meyer, Christopher ^a   Dougherty, Christopher M ^a   Bedair, Sarah ^b   Morgan, Brian ^b   Arnold, David P ^a   Bashirullah, Rizwan ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR CORE INDUCTORS; AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION; BOOST CONVERTER; CMOS PROCESSS; CONVERSION RATIO; FORM FACTORS; HIGH VOLTAGE GAIN; MECHANICAL DESIGN; MICRO ROBOTS; MICRO-UAV; MICROFABRICATED; MOBILE AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS; PEAK EFFICIENCY; POWER SOURCES; POWER SYSTEMS; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SENSOR SUBSYSTEMS; SMALL SCALE; SYSTEM DESIGN;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS; POWER ELECTRONICS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 79955756092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APEC.2011.5744783     Document Type: Conference Paper

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