A batteryless 19 μw MICS/ISM-band energy harvesting body sensor node SoC for ExG applications

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 199-213

  Zhang, Yanqing ^a   Zhang, Fan ^b   Shakhsheer, Yousef ^a   Silver, Jason D ^b   Klinefelter, Alicia ^a   Nagaraju, Manohar ^b   Boley, James ^a   Pandey, Jagdish ^b   Shrivastava, Aatmesh ^a   Carlson, Eric J ^b   Wood, Austin ^b   Calhoun, Benton H ^a   Otis, Brian P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Body area sensors; energy harvesting; subthreshold; ultra low power

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BATTERY-LESS; BIOSIGNALS; CIRCUIT BLOCKS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; COMPLETE SYSTEM; DYNAMIC POWER MANAGEMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HEART RATES; LOW VOLTAGES; NODE LIFETIME; POWER MANAGEMENTS; RF TRANSMITTER; RF-POWER; SUBTHRESHOLD; SUPPLY VOLTAGES; ULTRA-LOW POWER;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; SENSOR NODES;

PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS;

EID: 84872106855     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2221217     Document Type: Article

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