100 mV-1.2 V fully-integrated DC-DC converters for thermal energy harvesting

IET Power Electronics

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1151-1156

  Bassi, Giovanni ^a   Colalongo, Luigi ^a   Richelli, Anna ^a   Kovacs Vajna, Zsolt Miklós ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE CONVERTERS; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; EXTERNAL COMPONENTS; FULLY INTEGRATED; LOW VOLTAGE TECHNOLOGY; OUTPUT VOLTAGES; POWER EFFICIENCY; ULTRA-LOW-VOLTAGE;

ENERGY HARVESTING; MICROELECTRONICS;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84881489849     PISSN: 17554535     EISSN: 17554543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-pel.2012.0625     Document Type: Article

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