A 300-nW sensitive, 50-nA DC-DC converter for energy harvesting applications

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2674-2684

  Chowdary, Gajendranath ^a   Chatterjee, Shouri ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; integrated circuits; maximum power point tracking; photovoltaic cell; sub W power sources; thermoelectric generator; wireless sensor nodes

Indexed keywords

ENERGY HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL CELLS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; SENSOR NODES; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

AUXILIARY VOLTAGE SOURCE; DC-DC BOOST CONVERTERS; INTERNAL OPERATIONS; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING; POWER SOURCES; SUB-THRESHOLD REGIONS; THERMOELECTRIC GENERATORS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

DC-DC CONVERTERS;

EID: 84947042471     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: 15580806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2015.2477578     Document Type: Article

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