Ultralow Power Circuit Design for Wireless Sensor Nodes for Structural Health Monitoring

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 104, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1529-1546

  Lee, Yoonmyung ^a   Blaauw, David ^b   Sylvester, Dennis ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy harvesting; low power electronics; sensor systems; structural engineering

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY GAP; ENERGY HARVESTING; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LOW POWER ELECTRONICS; SENSOR NODES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; TIMING CIRCUITS;

DESIGN TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY-AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS; HIGH POWER CONSUMPTION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (ICS); SENSOR SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING (SHM); ULTRA-LOW-POWER CIRCUITS; WIRELESS SENSOR NODE;

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING;

EID: 84982279539     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2016.2547946     Document Type: Article

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