A millimeter-scale energy-autonomous sensor system with stacked battery and solar cells

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 801-813

  Fojtik, Matthew ^a   Kim, Daeyeon ^b   Chen, Gregory ^b   Lin, Yu Shiang ^c   Fick, David ^a   Park, Junsun ^a   Seok, Mingoo ^a   Chen, Mao Ter ^d   Foo, Zhiyoong ^a   Blaauw, David ^a   Sylvester, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d Link A Media Devices   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS memory integrated circuits; digital signal processors; photovoltaic power systems; transducers

Indexed keywords

ARM CORTEX-M3; CMOS MEMORY INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INITIAL ENERGY; INTEGRATED POWER MANAGEMENT; LI BATTERIES; MILLIMETER-SCALE; PHOTOVOLTAIC POWER SYSTEMS; PROCESS TEMPERATURE; SENSOR SYSTEMS; STANDBY MODE; TEMPERATURE DATA; TEMPERATURE SENSING; ULTRA-LOW-POWER CIRCUITS;

ARM PROCESSORS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLAR CELLS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE SENSORS; TRANSDUCERS;

MICROSYSTEMS;

EID: 84874654616     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2233352     Document Type: Article

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