A low-voltage charge pump starting at 135mV for thermal energy harvesting in Body Area Networks

Proceedings of the Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference - MELECON

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 618-621

  Kappel, Robert ^a   Auer, Mario ^a   Hofer, Gunter ^b   Pribyl, Wolfgang ^a   Holweg, Gerald ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; AUTOMATIC FREQUENCY; BODY AREA NETWORK; CHARGE PUMP; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; FULLY INTEGRATED; INPUT VOLTAGES; LOW COSTS; LOW VOLTAGES; LOW-VOLTAGE; TEST CHIPS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY HARVESTING;

NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

EID: 84861509152     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MELCON.2012.6196507     Document Type: Conference Paper

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