An 18 nA, 87% Efficient Solar, Vibration and RF Energy-Harvesting Power Management System with a Single Shared Inductor

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2501-2513

  Chowdary, Gajendranath ^a   Singh, Arun ^a   Chatterjee, Shouri ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; maximum power point tracking; photo voltaic cell; RF radiation energy; sub W power sources; vibrational energy; wireless sensor nodes

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COMPARATOR CIRCUITS; COMPARATORS (OPTICAL); DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; OPEN CIRCUIT VOLTAGE; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); POWER MANAGEMENT;

CURRENT SENSING; INDUCTOR CURRENTS; MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY; MAXIMUM POWER POINT; OSCILLATOR FREQUENCY; POWER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; RF ENERGY HARVESTING; SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATIONS;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 84981747330     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2016.2585304     Document Type: Article

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