A DC/DC boosting technique and power management for ultralow-voltage energy harvesting applications

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2701-2708

  Richelli, Anna ^a   Comensoli, Simone ^a   Kovács Vajna, Zsolt M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Converters; Dc Dc power conversion; Integrated circuit (IC) design

Indexed keywords

CMOS PROCESSS; DC-DC POWER CONVERSION; DC/DC CONVERSION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (IC) DESIGN; LOW THRESHOLDS; LOW VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; MAXIMUM POWER; OUTPUT CURRENT; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PORTABLE DEVICE; POWER HARVESTING; POWER MANAGEMENT CIRCUITS; POWER MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; POWER MANAGEMENTS; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; TEST CHIPS; ULTRA-LOW-VOLTAGE;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ENERGY HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROELECTRONICS; TORQUE CONVERTERS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84857381341     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2011.2167890     Document Type: Article

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