Design and performance analysis of supercapacitor charging circuits for wireless sensor nodes

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 391-402

  Kim, Sehwan ^a   No, Keun Sik ^a   Chou, Pai H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Charge pump; energy harvesting; maximum power transfer tracking; supercapacitor charging

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP; CHARGING EFFICIENCY; CHARGING TIME; DIRECT DIGITAL SYNTHESIZER; ENERGY HARVESTING SYSTEMS; HIGH-POWER; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; MAXIMUM POWER TRANSFER; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROGRAMMABLE CHARGE PUMPS; SIMULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SOLAR IRRADIATION; SUPER CAPACITOR; TIME ZONES; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

CAPACITORS; CHARGE PUMP CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK SYNTHESIS; ENERGY HARVESTING; IRRADIATION; POWER CONVERTERS; SENSOR NODES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR RADIATION;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 81255129666     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2011.2167274     Document Type: Article

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