On-chip photovoltaic energy conversion in bulk-CMOS for indoor applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 2491-2504

  Cilingiroglu, Ugur ^a   Tar, Bora ^a   Ozmen, Cagatay ^b  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Dickson charge pump; energy harvesting; integrated photodiode; sensor node

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; ENERGY HARVESTING; PHOTODIODES; SENSOR NODES;

DESIGN OPTIMIZATION; DICKSON CHARGE PUMP; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; INDOOR APPLICATIONS; INTEGRATED PHOTODIODES; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY CONVERSION; SUBTHRESHOLD OPERATION;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN;

EID: 84905396382     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2014.2304652     Document Type: Article

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