A high efficiency orthogonally switching passive charge pump rectifier for energy harvesters

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1959-1966

  Mansano, Andre ^a   Bagga, Sumit ^a,b   Serdijn, Wouter ^a  

^a Delft University of Technology ^*  (Netherlands)

^b DFchip   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Charge pump; energy harvesting; ISM; power conversion efficiency; radio frequency identification (RFID); rectifier

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODELS; CHARGE PUMP CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; HVDC POWER TRANSMISSION; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RECTIFYING CIRCUITS; SWITCHING;

CHARGE PUMP; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; OUTPUT DC VOLTAGE; POWER CONVERSION EFFICIENCIES; RECTIFIER; STANDARD CMOS TECHNOLOGY; SWITCHING CHARGE; VOLTAGE CONTROLLED SWITCHES;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84880072117     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2012.2230499     Document Type: Article

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