A Thermal Energy Harvesting Power Supply with an Internal Startup Circuit for Pacemakers

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 26-37

  Ashraf, Mohammadreza ^a   Masoumi, Nasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; internal startup; low power; maximum powerpoint trackers; pacemakers; power supplies; thermoelectricity; ultralow voltage

Indexed keywords

CHARGE PUMP CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT TRACKING; ENERGY HARVESTING; SPICE; THERMAL ENERGY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THERMOELECTRICITY; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

FORWARD BODY BIASING; HSPICE SIMULATIONS; IMPLANTABLE PACEMAKER; ITS EFFICIENCIES; OVERLOAD CONDITION; REFERENCE VOLTAGES; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; ULTRA-LOW-VOLTAGE;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84922168547     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2015.2391442     Document Type: Article

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