Supercapacitor-based reconfigurable energy management unit for autonomous wireless sensor nodes

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2541-2544

  Sankman, Joseph ^a   Chen, Hai ^a   Ma, Dongsheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL VOLTAGES; CONVERTER ARCHITECTURE; DYNAMIC VOLTAGE SCALING; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY RECYCLING; ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MULTI-DIRECTIONAL; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; RE-CONFIGURABLE; SUPER CAPACITOR; VOLTAGE CONVERSION; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

CAPACITORS; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ENERGY STORAGE; FLYWHEELS; PUMPS; RECYCLING; SENSOR NODES; SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; VOLTAGE REGULATORS; VOLTAGE STABILIZING CIRCUITS;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 79960866674     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISCAS.2011.5938122     Document Type: Conference Paper

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