A low-voltage charge pump for micro scale thermal energy harvesting

Proceedings - ISIE 2011: 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 76-80

  Abdelfattah, Moataz ^a   Mohieldin, Ahmed ^a   Emira, Ahmed ^a   Sanchez Sinencio, Edgar ^b  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b Texas Agrilife Research Mariculture Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP; CLOCK GENERATOR; EXPONENTIAL GAIN; INPUT VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; MICRO-SCALES; MIM CAPACITORS; POWER MANAGEMENT UNIT; STATIC LOADS; SUB-BLOCKS; ULTRA-LOW-VOLTAGE; VOLTAGE MULTIPLIERS;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; FREQUENCY MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; MIM DEVICES; MULTIPLYING CIRCUITS;

PUMPS;

EID: 80052826505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISIE.2011.5984136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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