Nanowatt-scale power management for on-chip photovoltaic energy harvesting beacons

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 284-291

  Tar, Bora ^a   Cilingiroglu, Ugur ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; photovoltaic converter; radio frequency identification (RFID) tag; sensor node

Indexed keywords

SENSOR NODES;

ON CHIPS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CONVERTER; PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY HARVESTING;

ENERGY HARVESTING;

EID: 84907226051     PISSN: 21563357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JETCAS.2014.2337192     Document Type: Article

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