A stacked capacitor multi-microwatts source energy harvesting scheme with 86 mV minimum input voltage and ±3 v bipolar output voltage

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 313-323

  Teh, Ying Khai ^a   Mok, Philip K T ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bipolar output; boost converter; complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) energy harvesting; transformer; voltage regulator; wireless sensor node

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR OUTPUTS; BOOST CONVERTER; COMPLEMENTARY METAL OXIDE SEMICONDUCTORS; TRANSFORMER; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

EID: 84907196191     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2014.2337152     Document Type: Article

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