A Highly Efficient Ultralow Photovoltaic Power Harvesting System with MPPT for Internet of Things Smart Nodes

IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3065-3075

  Liu, Xiaosen ^a   Sanchez Sinencio, Edgar ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacitor value modulation; energy harvesting; Internet of things (IOT); maximum power point tracking (MPPT); Solar cell

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CAPACITORS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; FREQUENCY MODULATION; INTERNET; MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKERS; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MODULATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; PULSE TIME MODULATION; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO TRANSCEIVERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOLAR CELLS; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

ILLUMINATION CONDITIONS; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); MAXIMUM POWER POINT TRACKING ALGORITHMS; MAXIMUM POWER TRANSFER; OUTPUT-VOLTAGE RANGES; PASSIVE RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION DEVICES; SYSTEM ON CHIPS (SOC); WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER;

INTERNET OF THINGS;

EID: 84958155184     PISSN: 10638210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVLSI.2014.2387167     Document Type: Article

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