An Efficiency-Enhanced Integrated CMOS Rectifier with Comparator-Controlled Switches for Transcutaneous Powered Implants

Proceedings of the IEEE 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 385-388

  Guo, Song ^a   Lee, Hoi ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; RECTIFYING CIRCUITS;

BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS; CONVERSION RATIO; DROPOUT VOLTAGE; NMOS TRANSISTORS; OUTPUT CURRENT; POWER EFFICIENCY; REVERSE LEAKAGE CURRENT; TRANSCUTANEOUS;

ELECTRIC RECTIFIERS;

EID: 84929612507     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2007.4405758     Document Type: Conference Paper

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